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...sheer 600-ft. cliff to her new home in the Faroe Islands. She hasn't yet made up her mind to come down again. Six hundred years ago her Viking ancestors on the craggy basalt archipelago, jutting sharply from the sea 250 miles north of Scotland, came under Danish rule. They haven't yet made up their minds to shake...
...overheated Faroe kitchens, hotheaded partisans recently have let the whale-oil lamps burn low while they argued the merits of proud independence on the one hand or Danish protection on the other. Some have even suggested alliance with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...
Dignity & Fun. At his first platform appearance, in St. Louis, the President wore his air of no-politics as jauntily as his iridescent blue tie. Waving his hat and grinning broadly, he clambered down to shake hands with several score welcoming bigwigs, received a huge Danish pastry from a delegation of A.F.L. bakers (with the admonition from a spectator: "That's bad for your figure, Harry...
They yielded, finally, to the persuasive arguments of one of the world's great T.B. experts: Denmark's Dr. Johannes Holm. Dr. Holm is so convinced of BCG's worth that during the war he took the risk of smuggling the vaccine to Danish prisoners in German concentration camps...
...dream school was one of 40-odd schools now being opened in the U.S. zone of Germany for the children of occupation troops. The Berlin school started with about 175 U.S. children (40% of them below fourth grade), and a smattering from the Danish, French and Belgian military missions. In 26 years of school experience, Superintendent Edwin M. Boyne of Michigan had never seen such equipment and such first class personnel. Cost to parents: up to the rank of sergeant, nothing; for all others, $4 per month per child...