Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homecoming Early last December, in one of the year's outstanding contributions to tabloid titillation, the New York Daily News led the pack in discovering Christine Jorgensen, the ex-G.I. from The Bronx who reported that Danish doctors had converted him into a woman (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, fittingly, it was the News which best answered the "who, what, when, where" as it reported Christine's gala homecoming. Said the News: "Christine Jorgensen, the lad who became a lady, arrived home from Denmark yesterday, lit a cigarette like a girl, husked 'Hello' and tossed...
Last week Fontaine landed in New York for talks with network executives before returning to Worcester, where his program will begin over station WTAG later this month. His listeners will hear a Copenhagen housewife admitting that "Danish husbands haven't entirely forgotten the tradition of the Vikings-they're never ones to help with the dishes"; a Belgian restaurateur complaining that American students "all sit around with their feet on chairs"; and an 18-year-old Dutch boy saying, dispiritedly: "I don't believe in God, and that's true of more than one-third...
...just the sort of tale to send Danish-born Dr. Ellinger hotfooting it to the hills. For years he has been spending all his spare time studying Philippine natives, trying to find "what's underneath when you take off Spanish and American varnish." The Abenlens sounded as unvarnished as any people in the Islands...
...magazines, most of them banned during the German occupation. One day in 1945, he received word that a TIME Inc. representative would like to talk to him in Stockholm. To get permission to make the trip, Fardal concocted an elaborate ruse. About a year earlier, he had become the Danish representative for a paper mill in Gothenburg, Sweden. So he arranged surreptitiously to have this firm send him a letter offering to ship a large quantity of toilet paper, then badly needed in Denmark. On the strength of this offer, the Nazis permitted him to go to Sweden...
With that for a start, most bestselling historicals would be off on a snappy story of boudoir doings in the First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married...