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Angel has picked its Danish jazzmen from the middle of the road, too. Svend Asmussen and His Unmelancholy Danes contains some swinging close harmony (Yes, Sir, That's My Baby} that goes right back to the Rhythm Boys of early Whiteman days. But Leader Asmussen plays his fiddle like Oldtimer Joe Venuti with a bop goatee, and a fellow named Max Leth dishes up some imaginative vibes and piano...
...Christensen Fugal. "Our troubles are what make us strong." For Lavina, trouble and adversity have been lifelong companions. As a young girl she wanted more than anything to go to college. But when she won a scholarship to the University of Utah, she could not accept it. Her parents, Danish immigrants, did not have the money to buy her clothes...
This eloquent book bears a Danish boy's precocious witness to the hard scriptural paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish...
Ever since Danish doctors altered George (later Christine) Jorgensen to suit his inclinations (TIME, April 20, 1953), there have been more and more reports of physically normal males asking surgeons for similar operations. Such surgery, prohibited in the U.S., effects no sex transformation; male sex organs are merely removed, and hormones administered.* Information about these operations has been scant, but some U.S. doctors feel that surgeons abroad are prompted more by pity for their patients than by facts about their disorders...
...Hebrew Union College celebrated its Soth anniversary with "Thanks to Denmark" ceremonies, recalling one of the bravest mass rescues of World War II. In 1943, when Hitler sent his Gestapo to arrest all Jews in occupied Denmark, the Danes hid the Jewish population in attics, barns and cellars. Danish policemen and fishermen slipped the Jews into waiting fishing smacks that ferried them to the safety of neutral Sweden. Many of the Danish rescuers were caught by the Nazis. but of Denmark's 8,500 Jews, 7,000 were saved. Said Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union: "We Jews...