Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danish town of Odense, all the signposts carry an extra arm. It points the way to Andersens Hus, where in 1805 an ugly duckling named Hans Christian Andersen was born. The world today needs no introduction to this cobbler's son whose fairy stories, published in dozens of tongues, will last as long as there are children to hear them. Andersen did not write them for children, or for money or fame, although the stories brought him both. He wrote them for himself, and Novelist Monica Stirling's tender biography tells...
Gangly Youth. The young Andersen saw life as a fairy story more magical than any he wrote. Beneath the Odense River, he knew, lay China, a fantasy kingdom that surfaces in Andersen's The Nightingale. His father let him dream. "No matter what the boy wants to be," he told his wife, "if it is the silliest thing in the world, let him have his own way." At 14, and gangly as a stork, Hans Christian stowed his toy theater, a loaf of bread and 13 rigsdaler into his knapsack and went to Copenhagen...
...yard dash, Harvard's Wayne Andersen outran teammate Sam Robinson, who had defeated him in the Army meet...
Sprinter Wayne Andersen reached the semifinals of the NCAA indoor 60-yard dash, but he still hasn't hit his peak outdoors. He has run the 100 yard dash in 9.6 and 9.7 with the aid of slight following winds. In the IC4A finals, however, he tripped at the start, and finished last, leaving his official best time...
Harvard's other chance for points, sophomore sprinter Wayne Andersen, had his problems on the muggy Rutgers track. He made it to the finals of the 100, but slipped coming out of the blocks and spent the first ten yards trying to regain his balance. By the time he did, he was a lead-pipe cinch for sixth place...