Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jean Hersholt, 69, veteran Hollywood character actor, best remembered for his kindly radio portrayal of Dr. Christian; after long illness; in Hollywood. A sometime painter, book collector and translator (a complete English version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales), Danish-born Actor Hersholt became one of filmland's best-loved personalities...
Although the big news from Moscow concerned a dead Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS), there was intelligence of another kind about a very live Premier Nikolai Bulganin,, At a party at the Danish embassy, which Nikita Khrushchev was too busy to attend, Bulganin roared toasts to every toastable cliche. At one excited peak he grabbed a martini and fervently cried: "Eisenhower opened the martini road in Geneva! We sometimes drank with him, in the intervals, in martinis to peace and friendship in the world." Feeling extremely euphoric, Bulganin then lurched over to a U.S. military attache, guffawed and grabbed...
Born. To Victor Borge, 47, Danish-born pianist-comedian, and Sarahbel Roach Borge, 35: their second child (his third, her fourth), a daughter; in Waterbury, Conn. Name: Frederikke...
...check point between East and West Berlin, the blue Ford sedan of Danish Newspaperman Henrik Bonde-Henriksen was too well known to draw the special attention of the Communist police. Seated beside him as he drove through one evening last week was a man puffing furiously at a pipe, his hat pulled down over his eyes. The guard waved them on. Otto John, onetime head of West Germany's counter-espionage organization, was on his way back to the West...
...crime is committed can hardly exercise effective jurisdiction even if it has the apparent right. And how, if not by the U.S. military, can an armed forces civilian dependent or employee be tried for a crime committed at some such remote outpost as Thule in Greenland, where the Danish government holds title but has none of the local machinery for exercising judicial control...