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...world's zaniest musician, pun-loving, Danish-born Pianist Victor Borge, showed no signs of flagging as he prepared to play his way this week into the second year's run of his one-man Broadway hit show, Comedy in Music. Borge's witty (and programless) keyboard romp has pleasantly parted 230,400 customers from some $775,000 of their money, has outdistanced all long-run records for one-performer Broadway offerings...
...Born. To Victor Borge, 45, Danish-born pianist-wit whose Comedy in Music has broken all Broadway records for one-man shows (ninth month, heading toward 300 performances), and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 34, his second wife: a son. Name: Victor Bernhard. Weight...
Like most patter merchants, Danish-born Victor Borge sometimes indulges in very corny gags and in rather too-cute remarks. There are even moments when he does nothing more than play the piano agreeably. But with his full kit of comedy tools, he not only blends words and music, but mixes satire with nonsense, the irrelevant with the irreverent. And if what he does begins to pall a little, there is still a genuine fascination in how he does...
...presidential party turned off Route 40 into a side road a mile outside town, and pushed on down the lane to the 1,900-acre ranch of Danish-born Aksel Nielsen, an Eisenhower family friend and financial adviser since the early '30s. Making an immediate break for his cabin, Ike shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch...
Died. Hans Jeppesen Isbrandtsen, 61, Danish-born founder of the Isbrandtsen Steamship Co.; of coronary thrombosis; while on a world air tour, at Wake Island...