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...dawn, deputies were blocking the roads, and rancher pilots for miles around were taking to the air to drop warning messages at houses without telephones, and to search roads and back trails. Later in the morning Ellis' car came bumping up the rough trail to the Andy Andersen ranch, 60 miles from the scene of his last killing. The owner, who was reading a note dropped from the air, got into his own car and skidded off to telephone the law as Ellis took refuge in Andersen's barn. Soon airplanes began landing on Andersen's sloping...
...valiant viewer of television for tots, but having read your article and noted horrified reactions of mothers, who eavesdrop on childish programs, I merely wonder if those anxious adults ever happened to read Grimm's Fairy Tales or Hans Christian Andersen...
...Danish Foreign Office announced that it would officially protest the Hollywood story of Hans Christian Andersen starring jittery Comic Danny Kaye. The Copenhagen newspaper Politiken quickly added its support: "Reports from Hollywood indicate that the cobbler's son from Odense, Denmark, shall now be known to history as the singing and dancing hero from a $4,000,000 Technicolor show. Is it really permitted to distort the life of great men in such reckless manner?" Danny's considered opinion: "I think the people of Denmark will like the picture. I don't do any scat singing...
...Olympics winding up at Oslo's famed Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill this week, some 150,000 Norwegians, shouting Heia! after each soaring leap, seemed to think that this was the best of all winter Olympic games. Native-born Arnfinn Bergmann won the big jump; Norwegian Speed Skater Hjalmar Andersen became a national hero by his grand-slam performance in winning the 5,000-, 1,500-, and 10,000-meter races on consecutive days; and Norway, according to unofficial point scores, won the games, 125½ to the second-place U.S.'s 89½. Yet the Norwegians still...
...Hans Christian Andersen...