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Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Princess Martha of Sweden, vacationing last week in a villa high above Oslo Fjord, saw a sailboat drifting helplessly toward the rocks, rushed to their rowboat. Prince Olaf rowed. Princess Martha flung a rope. The sailors were saved...
International six-metre race for Scandinavia's gold cup-won by Sweden; at Oslo...
...alcoholics in his London embassy: "I never made it a practice to serve liquor in my home in the States, and see no reason to change now." Other U. S. diplomats abroad wondered what all the excitement was about. Alcoholics are never served in the American Embassy at Oslo or Copenhagen, while most of the U. S. diplomats in the Balkans are teetotalers...
Haakon, Gustaf & Christian. Visitors to Oslo paid up to 500 kroner ($132). each just for a place at a window from which to see the three Kings of Scandinavia-Norway's Haakon VII, Sweden's Gustaf V and Denmark's Christian X-ride in state from the Slot to Vor Frelsers Kirke, with the bridal party...
...sight for the gods which no man paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew...