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...member rubber-stamp Cabinet last week, ostensibly because the Regent had refused to approve a new law increasing personnel in the security forces and national fire department. Within half an hour Papadopoulos had been "requested" to succeed the general as Regent. Under pictures of Constantine and his Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, Greece's undisputed strongman took an oath upon a gold-embossed Bible to uphold King, constitution and country. While a surprised Zoitakis was being notified of his dismissal, Papadopoulos accepted congratulations from the Cabinet. "Incidentally," he informed them, "you can still call me Mr. Prime Minister...
Probably the best-known Wagnerian tenor of the century, Danish-born Lauritz Melchior, retired from the opera stage 19 years ago. Since then, he observes accurately enough, "there has been no one to replace me." One reason is that his major roles require a Heldentenor (heroic tenor), that rare breed of singer with the stature of a Valhalla deity, the projection of a diesel horn and the stamina of a Channel swimmer...
Monday, 3 p.m.: Danish-born Pianist Gunnar Johansen, 63, gets a phone call at the University of Wisconsin, where he has been artist-in-residence since 1939. Boris Sokoloff, manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, is on the line. Conductor Eugene Ormandy and Pianist Peter Serkin have disagreed on the interpretation of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in D Major, which Serkin was to play with the Philadelphians in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall the following evening. Could Johansen fill in? Johansen has never even heard the piece, a little-known transcription by Beethoven of his only violin concerto. He dashes...
Although he is a skipper without a ship, Danish-born Svend T. Simonsen, 59, has been taking a remarkably rewarding cruise through the $3 billion-a-year pleasure-boating business. So many ex-landlubbers are signing up for Simonsen's correspondence courses in piloting and celestial navigation that his Coast Navigation School in Santa Barbara, Calif., took in a total of $85,000 last year. His income may not qualify him as a tycoon, but the captain wins high marks for return on an original investment...
...Born. To King Constantino of the Hellenes, 26, and Queen Anne-Marie, 20, his Danish-born wife of almost three years: their second child, first son, and first in line to the throne; in Tatoi Palace, 15 miles north of Athens...