Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King Frederik of Denmark, "strongest monarch in history" [TIME, May 21]: this claim by his onetime physical instructor, in behalf of the Danish sovereign, might reasonably be disputed by a Thracian peasant, C. Julius Maximinus...
Combat training in thickly populated, highly cultivated Germany is not as simple as in the vast forest and desert areas of the U.S. Fighter bombers must fly across the Mediterranean to Tripoli for target practice. The Army's biggest antiaircraft guns must be transported up to the Danish frontier in the British zone for firing. The 4th will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver...
Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, escorted across the North Sea by three British destroyers, arrived in England for the first state visit by a Danish sovereign since 1914. After a Buckingham Palace banquet and a Guildhall luncheon, King Frederik was host at a Danish embassy party where he calmly broke tradition by smoking during dinner, was calmly imitated by his guest of honor, King George VI. Frederik, proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor...
Newest member of the plug lobby is the U.N.'s Mogens Skot-Hansen, a hustling Danish moviemaker, who persuaded a producer to make Dorothy McGuire a U.N. translator in Mister 880 ("She is a nice good girl and gives us a good name"). Thanks to his efforts, Bing Crosby, playing a journalist in the forthcoming Here Comes the Groom, will be shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still...
...speakers will include Tom Callahan, N.S.A. travel director, Peter Zuntz, from the Danish International Student Committee; Jose Vose, for the Netherlands; John Harrison from Great Britain; and Robert Tesdill, director of the Council on Student Travel...