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...designing Concordia Senior College at Fort Wayne, Ind., Saarinen remembered the snug appearance of Danish villages clustered around their church, kicked the modern cliche of the flat roof skyhigh, and designed the chapel and buildings with pointed roofs. Says he: "There is a whole question of how to relate buildings to earth and sky. Is the sharp horizontal really the best answer? We must have an emotional reason as well as a logical end for everything we do." Saarinen admits his decision spread dissension even within his office, but he let the peaked roofs stand. "The smorgasbord boys love...
...body, found in a Danish peat bog, was buried 8 ft. deep. It was naked except for a cap and belt, had a one-day stubble of beard on its face and was perfectly preserved. The plaited-leather hangman's noose around its neck indicated that the man had been strangled before being thrown into the bog. The peat cutters who found it hastened to call the police. But the police were unable to solve the mystery and did not really care. The body had been lying in the peat for some 2,000 years...
...When Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge did his record-running (849 performances) one-man show on Broadway, union rules demanded that he be assisted by eleven stagehands and four stand-by musicians. The musicians never played, and what the stagehands did remains a mystery. Last week Borge transported his Broadway show, in a cut version and with a few additions, to TV. When all the producers, directors, musicians, stagehands, boom pushers, scenery movers, cameramen, set painters, carpenters, copyists, audio and video control men were counted, it was clear that network TV's first one-man show called...
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...