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France's best was Andre Japy, who in a 100-h. p. monoplane made round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland...
...practice twice a day, shun smoking and drinking, abide the stares of the curious, she might as well get something out of it besides entertainment and silverware; 2) hers is a consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson Davis ("Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson, they made contact with a longtime friend named Dennis Scanlon. Mr. Scanlon, who runs a surgical-instrument...
...process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader Karl Schafer, who made the Austrian swimming team in 1928, took the men's title. Blonde Sonja Henie of Oslo won the women's championship...
...hears little about the woman who, from the beginning of the century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped...
...Ohio, Indiana. Michigan and the Southwest, promised Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary that in mid-April Dr. Kagawa would deliver its annual Rauschenbusch Lectures. After that the East and Canada were to have him until June, when he planned to sail for Europe and the World Sunday School Convention at Oslo...