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...independent monarch since the 14th century, Haakon (rhymes roughly with token) began life as Prince Carl, second son of the ruling house of Denmark, with little hope and even less desire of becoming a ruler. His elder brother Christian was destined to succeed his father on the Danish throne. In a desperate motherly effort to secure a like position for Carl, Denmark's Queen Louise did her best to promote a marriage between him and The Netherlands' young Queen Wilhelmina. Carl would have none of it. Smitten with Britain's Princess Maud, and dedicated, like her brother...
...Russian navy has historically been handicapped by geography-graphically illustrated this summer when a cruiser and two destroyers had to make the long and circuitous passage via the Dardanelles, Gibraltar and the Danish narrows simply to transfer from the Black Sea to the Baltic fleet...
Died. Peter Freuchen, 71, Danish adventurer, explorer, $80,000 TV quiz winner (The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge), novelist (Ivalu, Eskimo), autobiographer (It's All Adventure, Vagrant Viking), whose Eskimo-life reporting is considered first-rate popularized anthropology; of a heart attack; at Elmendorf Air Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Irascible, impetuous, cantankerous, big (6 ft. 4 in.) Peter Freuchen, descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live...
...beat the Senators 6-0, threw only 85 pitches, walked only two men and finished the first no-hit, no-run game of the 1957 season. ¶ Although she wasted 40 valuable minutes of swimming time searching for her pilot boat in the chilling waters of the English Channel, Danish-born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover...
...Copenhagen, Danish-descended Val Peterson, new U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and onetime federal Civil Defense administrator, collected a plaque sent to him by citizens of Dannebrog, Neb., pleased bike-loving Danes by pedaling jauntily about on a two-wheeler...