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...returned to Grand Rapids to restart his law firm and pursue his interest in politics. His stepfather was active in local Republican affairs, and in 1948 Ford plunged in. He challenged the local incumbent Representative, Bertel Jonkman, in the G.O.P. primary and won, and then went on to win the general election, thanks in part to the support of Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Ford's experiences in the war had turned him away from Midwestern Republican isolationism, which Vandenberg opposed as well. Three weeks before after the election, Ford, in a quiet ceremony, married Betty Warren, an attractive divorc?e...
...Denmark was a Sleeping Beauty country with a wall around it to protect us against all foreign influence," says Integration Minister Bertel Haarder. "Now globalization has come over this country, and we are experiencing the dark side of our social-welfare system." According to Haarder, more than half of Denmark's 300,000 immigrants (out of a total population of 5.3 million) are unemployed and living on welfare. Among some groups, including Somalis, the number of jobless is 90%. The social-welfare system is so generous, the government contends, that there is no incentive for refugees to find...
...promising young artists. The Modigliani portrait went for $106,000, but the main attraction of the evening was Sarlie's 29 Picassos-the largest number ever put on the block at one time. Highest price for a single canvas was the $134,000 paid by Swedish Collector Carl-Bertel Nathhorst for Femme Accroupie, a somber painting of Picasso's "blue" period. And by evening's end, Sotheby's had broken another record: the Picassos brought in $636,720, the biggest single sale of a living artist. Between the Picassos, ten Modiglianis and an assortment of Crises...
...King Christian IV was Dutch. Of the five leading painters in 18th century Denmark, one was French and two were Swedish, and it took a Frenchman, Joseph Saly, to put Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts on its feet. Even Denmark's most famous sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, who died in 1844, spent most of his adult life in Rome and got most of his inspiration from the ancient Greeks...
...Northward to Iceland traveled blond, chunky, 39-year-old Bertel Eric Kuniholm, Foreign Service career man, to serve as first U. S. consul to Iceland. The office was created when Iceland's sovereign, King Christian of Denmark, capitulated to Adolf Hitler last April. Mr. Kuniholm's staff: one clerk...
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