Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CRUISE OF THE CONRAD-Alan Villiers -Scribner ($3-75) Three years ago in Copenhagen as he stood watching the 52-year-old Danish training-ship Georg Stage, "last surviving frigate in the world," Sailor-Author Villiers had to pinch himself to prove he was not dreaming when a bystander said it was for sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon...
...evening to the theatre, to see Mr. Gielgud play "Hamlet" To live up to the tributes given him in New York is an accomplishment indeed, and I find his the best interpretation of the Danish prince I have yet seen. Back to Cambridge soon afterwards, with the lights of the Business School leering contemptuously across the river at the far dimmer eyes of the Houses on the other side. To bed to dream of sitting at "Hamlet" with Mr. Widener's first folio of Shakespere in my lap, keeping careful track of Mr. Gielgud's lines...
...smart, got ahead fast, was soon doing a brokerage business on the side. When he met Mette Gad, a Danish girl on a visit to Paris, her strapping body, naturalness and intelligence appealed to him. They married, settled down to raise a family. Paul was making good money, Mette was social and a good spender. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Paul took up drawing as a hobby. Gradually he became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon...
...Author's real name is Paul; he was named for his late great father, but his mother always called him by the Danish diminutive. Half-Danish, half-French with a dash of Peruvian, Pola Gauguin was born in Paris, brought up in Copenhagen, lives now in Oslo, Norway. An architect, art critic, painter in his own right, 54-year-old Pola Gauguin has five canvases in the National Gallery at Oslo, but has never attempted to set either the Seine or the South Seas on fire...
...frosty February day at the Century's turn, a gangling, 20-year-old Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles...