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...Victor Borge, Danish-born satirist, whose slow-drawled doubletalk went over fast in U.S. nightclubs, and sounded just slow...
Lauritz Melchior, big, Danish-born No. 1 Wagnerian tenor of the Metropolitan, on vacation in South Dakota's Black Hills, dressed himself in demi-Danish hunting costume, by special permit brought down an 1,800-lb. buffalo...
Bulbous Economist Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Danish-born Banker Hans Christian Sonne (pronounced Sonny) co-authored a 25? pamphlet (Fiscal & Monetary Policy) for the National Planning Association. Although the pamphlet attacks the whole problem of main taining high employment and vigorous private enterprise, its most striking features are its tax proposals. Economist Ruml slapped it down on the public counter at the psychological moment: just as Congress is preparing to take up the subject, just when many other people's ideas on the subject are coming to a boil...
Christian Adolf Volf has studied the human ear for 25 years. A balding, Danish-born inventor and onetime Sonotone engineer, he calls himself an acoustical physicist...
...Gehrig's parents, 77-year-old German-born Henry and 62-year-old Danish-born Christine, after more than 40 years' residence in the U.S., took the oath of citizenship...