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...tradition carried on by two other sons, Artist Bancel LaFarge and Architect Christopher Grant LaFarge. Two grandsons: Author Christopher LaFarge (Laughing Boy), Author and Indian Expert Oliver LaFarge. *French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Danish, Dutch and Esperanto...
...dense fog hung low as the Isbrandtsen Company's 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
There was nothing wrong with the Schafer method as far as it went. But a Danish instructor in physical fitness, Holger Nielsen, argued that its rhythmic pressure on the lower ribs of the back caused the lungs to take up only the same amount of air as a person inhales in normal breathing. Nielsen reasoned that if the victim's lungs could be made to take a deep breath, like a man inflating his chest before an open window, there would be a better chance of expelling water or gases from the lungs. Nielsen developed a method...
...rather intrigued, to say the least, by Mr. Ole Clausen's Nov. 5 letter concerning the supposed incapability of the American people for self-government. Most of the men here who have read the letter feel that either our Danish friend was indulging in a bit of sarcastic humor, or he's one of the most biased and unenlightened demagogues this side of the Iron Curtain...
...Kings College, the Duke of Edinburgh unfurled for the first time his own personal standard, recently approved by his father-in-law. Three feet long and two feet wide (impaled with his own arms and those of Elizabeth), the pennant includes a total of ten lions: six English, three Danish and one Scottish...