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After quitting the International Federation of Trade Unions 17 years ago because of its radical leanings, the A. F. of L. rejoined only last year. Next May, however, Matty Woll is going to the I. F. T. U. meeting in Oslo with a threat that A. F. of L. will quit again if Russian unions are admitted...
...surprising that the best ski jumpers in the world are developed in Norway. Last week, when 9,000 ski enthusiasts gathered in the little town of Brattleboro, Vt. to witness the ski-jumping championship of the U. S., the entry list looked like an Oslo telephone directory. Sprinkled among the Class A competitors were a few native Americans but the majority were Norwegians sojourning in the U. S. A dozen or so were topflight, but the performer the crowd had really come to see was Birger Ruud, the No. 1 product of Norway's extraordinary ski-training system...
...times, broken 50 records. His older brother, Sigmund, won the U. S. championship while on a visit last year and placed fifth last week. The Brothers Ruud are-next to Sonja Henie-Norway's greatest athletic pride. Born in a little silver-mining town of Kongsberg near Oslo, which has produced more topflight ski jumpers than any other spot in the world, little Birger Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with summertime diving...
Although Nils Eie of Oslo, Norway, took first in jumping with 36.76 points, Dartmouth captured team honors in that event to keep a clean slate. Because of the exceptionally fast surface on the runway, the jumpers took off from a rope stretched across the chute 50 feet below the platform, and jumps were consequently shorter than if the full length of the take-off had been utilized...
...streets of her native Oslo, Sonja Henie causes almost as much of a stir as King Haakon. In the U. S., where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she abdicated her amateur standing as figure-skating champion of the world, Sonja Henie's popularity is fast becoming comparable to that of Mary Pickford when she was America's Sweetheart...