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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, 67, Norwegian-born tennis ace who won the U.S. Women's Singles championship eight times (1915 to 1927) by a trick of hitting the ball just before it reached its height; in Stockholm, Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Haugen, who is now Thompson Professor at the University of Wisconsin, will teach both graduate and undergraduate courses with a probable emphasis on Norwegian, Henry C. Hatfield, Chairman of the Germanic Languages Department, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haugen Will Fill Reactivated Chair I'n Scandinavian | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

Automatic Foreman. Machines Bull was founded in 1931 by Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Bull Market | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Award was announced by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: NBC President Makes Proposal To Jail Quiz Program 'Cheaters'; Noel-Baker to Get Peace Prize | 11/6/1959 | See Source »

Having made out well on the English already at her command, blonde Bride Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rockefeller, Norwegian daughter-in-law of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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