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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northernmost Norway, in Barents Sea between Scandinavia and Spitsbergen, in Stockholm and in Oslo last week there was confusion?the confusion that results when the Press sets its pack upon the trail of a remote and elusive news story. The discovery on White Island. Spitsbergen, of the bodies of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Getting the Andree Story | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Most incongruous feature of opera-of all arts the most, wooden-is to watch ponderous paunchy bravos woo and buss great overstuffed divas whilst golden notes soar sonorously. Last week, when John Forsell, onetime (1909-10) baritone with Manhattan's Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fat Out | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Died. Professor Allvar Gullstrand, 68, famed Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel Prizeman for Medicine in 1911, holder of degrees from the Universities of Upsala, Jena, Dublin; in Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Target shooting in Switzerland is still as much of a national sport as it was in the U. S. in 1830. Hawk-eyed Swiss hold nearly all the free-rifle records in the world. Their team world's record, made in Stockholm last year, is 5,442 out of a possible 6,000. On an International target, two inches at 300 metres is all that separates a 10-point bullseye from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Enemy, the Swiss | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...Stockholm: His Royal Highness Crown Prince Gustav Adolf officially denied today reports from Amsterdam of the betrothal of his second son Prince Sigvard to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Juliana & Sigvard | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

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