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Henrik Ibsen; He's back, healthy; Ole Bull's coming.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 19991030
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Henrik Ibsen, abducted in 1982, is home again, healthier, we observe, than when he disappeared. He will oversee a community celebration in St. Paul today.

This isn't the real Ibsen, of course. The Norwegian playwright and poet died 93 years ago. No, this Ibsen is a 100-pound bronze bust created a century ago. Its rededication will take place at 10 a.m. on Lexington Avenue in Como Park.

The bust returns from a harrowing and demeaning kidnapping. Its recovery came thanks to alert detective work by an Augsburg College student and to the efforts of St. Paul Public Art, a ...

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