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...royal palace in Oslo had been without a woman-ever since King Olav V's youngest daughter, Astrid, married a commoner. But now the King and Crown Prince Harold, 31, will no longer live in lonely masculine splendor. The King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince. "For me," said he, "Sonja...
...became a United Press European correspondent-after agreeing to pay his own way to London in 1935. Two months later he went on to Germany, covering the 1936 Olympics and the Nazi Party rally with correspondents twice his age and many times his experience. His interview subjects ranged from Sonja Henie to Adolf Hitler. He returned to the U.S. after two years, settled for a job as office boy in the advertising department of the now defunct Indianapolis Times. By 1939, he was the paper's national advertising director. That year he married Divorcee Julia Bretzman Shields, a sculptor...
...interlock of trusts and foundations, and the seven regions into which Bata has decentralized operations keep separate, and secret, books, Bata himself is as interested in world affairs as in money. He reads foreign policy treatises for relaxation, travels 150,000 miles annually with his svelte wife Sonja, 38, inspecting regions and making courtesy calls on Presidents and Prime Ministers. Bata hires local labor for each plant but likes to shift key men from country to country: his Algerian plant is run by an American, a Chilean is in charge of Mexico, and at Batawa the chiefs for testing...
...most vital resource is its merchant fleet. With 2,833 freighters in operation, Norway has more tonnage afloat than the U.S. One man who controls much of Norway's shipping is Niels Onstad, who lives in a spacious white mansion outside Oslo with his wife, onetime Skating Star Sonja Henie. Many of Norway's ships are local inventions such as "parcel" tankers, which can carry up to 40 different liquids simultaneously...
...Hans Brinkerland has been dazzling European fans with her silver skates. Now American audiences will have a chance to see the twisting double axels, flying camels, and sizzling sit-spins that have made The Netherlands Sjoulcje Dijkstra (pronounced Shaw-keya Dike-stra), 22, European, world and Olympic champion. Outdistancing Sonja Henie as the world's most highly paid winterland performer, Sjoukje signed a two-year contract with the U.S.'s Holiday on Ice show for a reported $50,000 to $90,000 a year, a fancy figure that, if she likes to wear it, too, should...