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...began concertizing around Europe to cheering crowds at six, some listeners refused to believe that what they heard came from what they saw. In Berlin distinguished critics got down on all fours to examine her piano for the mechanical contraption that might explain the miracle. In Copenhagen the Danish press had her examined by a doctor to certify that she was really a child and not a midget; but New York critics wildly reached for their superlatives after her Town Hall debut at eight...
...this triumph Bohr won a Nobel Prize in 1922, and the Danish government built him a special physics institute in Copenhagen. From the start Bohr's "Copenhagen School" was international, attracting the best physicists from practically every country possessing good physicists...
...dozen stories in this new collection may be the literary testament of one of the most skilled but least prolific writers of the 20th century. Isak Dinesen is the pen name of Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen, who has produced only four other books (Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, Winter's Tales, The Angelic Avengers) in her 72 years. She works, for the most part, in the narrow and demanding field of the Gothic story-a romantic form requiring a controlled mixture of the grotesque and the sublime, where plot tragically turns on the concept of honor...
...than the little Greek princeling who was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed...
...have made a tremendous effort to dress up the country. As a result, Hungary has been provided with the highest standard of living behind the Iron Curtain-the well-traveled say Budapest lives better than Moscow itself. Food is cheap and abundant. Stores are full of Russian refrigerators and Danish kitchen equipment. The battle-torn Csespel Island steel mills are rebuilt and going full blast. In fact, Hungary has probably made greater strides in rebuilding in the year since the revolution than in all the ten years before...