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Everett House's head resident, Dorothy J. Burton, yesterday won a Fulbright scholarship for study at the University of Oslo, Norway. Miss Burton, who received her M.A. degree from Radcliffe, has been working on her doctorate in American History while taking charge of the Annex cooperative house...
...fanatically religious father, Munch grew up in an atmosphere compounded of love, pride and fear. Illness continually interrupted his schooling until, at 17, he went to art school. A few years later he had put on weight and assurance, become the biggest, best and hardest-drinking young painter in Oslo's equivalent of Greenwich Village...
Shortly before he died, Munch told his doctor that his path had "always been along an abyss." Perhaps his lifelong habit of hard, passionate labor was what saved him from going over the edge. He bequeathed no less than 1,008 oils to the city of Oslo, along with wagonloads of drawings, watercolors and engravings. It was a rich and illuminating legacy...
...owned most of his works and left them to Norwegian galleries when he died during the last war, Expect for a few pieces from private collectors, most of the exhibition is loaned from the city of Oslo, the national gallery, and the Gallery of painting at Bergen...
That night, while the weather lay thick and foul over the Norwegian coast, the control tower at Oslo airport received a garbled message from the DC-3's pilot. Forty-two hours later, after searching parties had scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...