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Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
Died. John Christmas Moeller, 54, tiny gamecock of the Danish resistance, prewar Minister of Commerce (1940), postwar Foreign Minister (1945); of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. Moeller helped establish the underground, then escaped to Britain in 1942 to head the Free Danish Movement. He negotiated an agreement with Britain whereby the R.A.F. spared Danish towns from saturation bombing so long as Danish patriots stuck to a busy schedule of blowing up factories...
Princess Margaret* had a busy week among the gossipists. First they had her about to be engaged to Prince George of Denmark, 28-year-old military attaché at the Danish Embassy. (He flatly denied it.) Two days later the Sunday Pictorial declared that the No. 1 man in the picture was really the 30-year-old Earl of Derby, "Britain's most eligible bachelor...
...spirit was high at the start, as wit Victor Borge dashed in from shows at the Copley and Statler to regale the Freshmen with some of his stock Danish patter and piano playing. Much amused by flying programs, flashing cameras, and beer-serving waiters, Borge supplied the only hush of the opening act when he performed novelty arrangements of the Blue Danube and Polonaise...
...Niebuhr was one liberal Protestant who had indeed heard the Voice out of the whirlwind. It spoke the thought of three God-tormented men: Russian Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Earth...