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...deal with the debts (except to arrange at the proper time some technical humbug permitting borrowing to recommence if the U. S. investor will lend); and because the Chadbourne Sugar Restriction Plan has cracked up with overproduction rampant, there was interest last week in the so-called "Oslo Group" led by Premier Colijn of The Netherlands...
Louisiana State University's huge Jack Torrance made his world record shot-put of 57 ft. 1 in. in 1934 at Oslo. If he had made exactly the same throw at New York or Rome, the shot would have traveled one inch farther; if at Madras, two inches farther-because of differences in the force of gravity. Moreover, since the field at Oslo was not checked by surveying instruments, there may have been an undetected inch of deviation from absolute flatness. In that case the throw would have been an inch longer or shorter, depending on whether...
...others could. When Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was first put on in London she enchanted Covent Garden with her girlish Sophie. Next year Londoners heard her again in The Magic Flute, called her one of the best Mozart singers alive. She had three glorious years in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen...
Born. To Crown Prince Olav of Norway, 33; and Crown Princess Martha, 35; their first son, third child; in Oslo...
...Author's real name is Paul; he was named for his late great father, but his mother always called him by the Danish diminutive. Half-Danish, half-French with a dash of Peruvian, Pola Gauguin was born in Paris, brought up in Copenhagen, lives now in Oslo, Norway. An architect, art critic, painter in his own right, 54-year-old Pola Gauguin has five canvases in the National Gallery at Oslo, but has never attempted to set either the Seine or the South Seas on fire...