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Back in his native Denmark, Captain Kurt Carlsen went aboard the royal yacht Dannebrog for a half-hour chat with King Frederik IX. Commented Carlsen: "It was a simple meeting between two sailors...
...Atlanta, on his way to Mobile to take command of a new Flying Enterprise, Captain Kurt Carlsen, besieged by reporters, asked them: "Why . . . pay any attention to me? I'm just another plain jerk. Maybe a bigger jerk than anybody else, when you get down to brass tacks." Asked about a pin in his lapel, he explained: "I'm an honorary member of the Girl Scouts of America ... I understand now the Boy Scouts are going to give my wife...
...talked about its gubernatorial contest and the runoff election in February. Segregation in public schools was a recurring subject in South Carolina, repeatedly coming back as Topic A after interruptions of a week or two. Items which were Topic A in several cities at the same time included Captain Carlsen and the Flying Enterprise, the announcement that Eisenhower was a Republican candidate, inflammable rayon sweaters and the third plane crash in Elizabeth, N.J. Almost everywhere, taxes became the leading subject in late February and early March...
After ten weeks of mulling over the heroic story of Captain Carlsen and the Flying Enterprise, Russia's navy newspaper Krasny Plot came out with its own version. The ship's cargo was not coffee and pig iron, but "diverse war materials, including a large number of optical sights and parts of V-2 rocket bombs," all made illegally in West Germany. Fearing that the French might learn of this if the Flying Enterprise put into Brest, the U.S. Defense Department ordered Captain Carlsen to weather out the gale, and sent two destroyers to take...
...Captain Carlsen's comment on all of that: "Nuts...