Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press. "Nonni" did not live long on the Icelandic farm of his birth. At 12 he was one of two healthy boys chosen to be educated in France at the expense of a rich nobleman. Crossing to Denmark in a sailing vessel, the youths got no farther than Copenhagen because of the Franco-Prussian War. Cared for by the bishop and clergy of that city, "Nonni" was converted to Catholicism, then skipped off with a troop of gypsies, was found by police after many an adventure. The two young Icelanders finally arrived in France in 1871, by which time "Nonni...
...Copenhagen a sight in the main square made Dr. Parran pause with admiration, for "along with advertisements of department stores, model houses, parks and other attractions of the city was posted the list of names, places and hours of all venereal disease clinics." In Scandinavia Dr. Parran also found that practically every case of syphilis was traced to the individual from whom it was contracted. In the U. S. only New York State tries to make a systematic search for the original source of infection. With his $8,000,000 Social Security fund, Dr. Parran is trying to make other...
...Malo, bound for Greenland. Said he then: "This voyage will be my last." Objectives were to bring back a party of scientists, make additional studies of the polar current and more extensive deep-sea soundings, visit a settleent of Eskimos unknown to Europeans. The explorer was expected in Copenhagen late this month to attend a reception in his honor, receive a gold medal...
Indefatigable Professor Maud Slye, pathologist of the University of Chicago, will use her "vacation" to address the International Congress for the Control of Cancer which meets in Brussels next month. Also at Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, perhaps Copenhagen, she will give the case histories of 5.000 cancerous and noncancerous mice, renew her old plea that complete medical records be kept for human cancer as she has kept them for her army of rodents...
Engaged. Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, 21, niece of Denmark's Christian X and Norway's Haakon VII, second cousin of Edward VIII; and Count Luitpold zu Castell-Castell of Bavaria, 31; in Copenhagen. Palace gossip had reported her a possible match for Edward VIII...