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During World War II, Lieut. Per Edvard Danielsen's swashbuckling sea-raids against the Nazis made him something of a national hero. In 1941, as skipper of a motor torpedo boat, he helped strike one of the first blows against the Quisling government, in a Commando raid from Britain against Norway's Nazi-occupied island base of Maaloy...
...smashed through a glass door in a salon of the swank Dorchester Hotel, where the Norwegian government in exile was meeting. Later, at the same hotel, he tried acrobatic stunts from the chandeliers. At war's end his disciplinary record was so bad that his father, Admiral Edvard C. Danielsen, tossed him out of the navy...
Tito is still a little, lonely heretic in the broad expanse of Communism. He has long looked wistfully for signs of a big fellow-dissenter in China. Even Tito's men saw the point. Last week Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj qualified the Review of International Affairs with the comment: Chinese and Russian rivalry was merely "a germ of controversy...
...award was made in recognition of Deknatel's preparation of the first book in English on the work of the 20th century Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, and for his part in organizing the first exhibit in the United States of Munch's work. His paintings and graphic works were shown last spring at the Fogg Art Museum and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston...
...correctness and studied pleasantry went on during a luncheon at the Forest Hills home of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie. Even the orchestra stayed neutral. It played both The Sidewalks of New York and the Red army's march Meadowlands, and, at the President's request, Edvard Grieg's I Love You. But Harry Truman extricated himself as soon as possible. He headed straight for the nearest military hospital -in this case St. Albans Naval Hospital-to visit men wounded in Korea...