Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...television set (here come the neighbors) ... A diamond ring and a diamond watch and bracelet, valued at $6,000 . . . About $4,000 worth of men's furnishings for Mr. Easton (all dressed up but where do we go?). A $1,500 wardrobe and an $1,800 'natural Norwegian blue-fox pouch cape' for Mrs. Easton. A $1,500 luggage set. And, for its first use, a trip to New York 'for a complete glamor...
...recently as last September the Swedes were resolutely avoiding any approach whatever to the joint defense of Scandinavia. Last week, however, Sweden's Defense Minister, Allan Georg Frederik Vougt, was in Oslo, Norway's fog-shrouded capital, to discuss with his Danish and Norwegian opposite numbers the beginnings of military collaboration-standardization of arms and training. The fact that the Norwegians and, to a lesser degree, the Danes, looked on Scandinavian defense as a part of Western European defense made Sweden's presence all the more significant...
Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 76, saved his life by fighting the icy sea off Trondheim when the Norwegian flying boat he was on crashed; 19 of the 45 passengers died. After swimming around until rescued, Russell said: "I don't suppose I was swimming for more than about a minute. For one who has been swimming regularly for about 70 years, it wasn't much...
Flying Tackles. Norwegian critics never go that far, and laymen seem to like the statues-at least, the park draws visitors of all ages in droves. As for blunt-spoken old Gustav Vigeland (who died in 1943), he refused to consider criticism for a moment. Oslo's city fathers gave him what he demanded: carte blanche and an expense account for 24 years to do for Oslo, if he could, what Michelangelo did for Rome (total bill: some $5,000,000). As his part of the bargain, Vigeland gave Oslo more than 120 groups of park statues...
...Caribbean, four days out of the Cuban port of Mariel, a storm struck the Euzkera. She sank so swiftly that only twelve men & women had time to climb into the one lifeboat that got away. Six days later, the Norwegian motorship Caribe sighted the lone lifeboat off the coast of Nicaragua. She took the survivors aboard, headed for Cura...