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...News in Pictures" spread: a little late, l take the liberty of calling to your attention that the picture captioned "Arctic Cache" does not show "supplies left by Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition" but shows the remnants of a depot placed ten years later by the Danish explorer (my father-in-law), the late Admiral Godfred Hansen. The depot was placed in 1919. . . approximately 700 feet north of Peary's old post . . . and was laid out by the third Thule expedition as fourrage for Roald Amundsen in case he should succeed in flying over the North Pole...
Swedish & Swahili. Pinto, who had hunted spies in World War I, had first-rate qualifications for his job. He could ask, look and listen in Dutch, Flemish, English, French, German and Italian, and also had "a competent working knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Rumanian and Swahili." For places, faces and cases, Pinto's memory was tenacious: he can still remember "not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and at what time of day they arrived." Stored in his mind like a library of microfilms were detailed pictures...
Aside from the big names so dear to Victor's catalogue, there are good performances by less famous musicians: Guido Cantelli and Milan's La Scala Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5; the late Fritz Busch with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 88; Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony in Hoist's The Planets...
...Russia furnished Danish shipbuilders with materials to build two $3,000,000 tankers. That was two years before Congress passed the Battle Act, which empowers the President to cut off U.S. aid to countries caught sending strategic materials behind the Iron Curtain. The tanker deal was no secret, but not until last month did the U.S. protest officially, hinting strongly that aid to Denmark might vanish with the Apsheron...
...start under General Eisenhower, who hoped it would help SHAPE'S multi-nation families to live and work together in harmony. Last January, when the first term began in a reconverted farmhouse, there were 28 boys & girls on the rolls. Now there are 148 students-Norwegian, Danish, Italian, Canadian, Dutch, French, British and American-ranging from four-year-olds to teenagers. When the school opens next fall, Headmaster Rene Tallard, who is also senior English teacher at the boys' high school in St. Germain, expects the enrollment to jump...