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...Germans suddenly showed panicky signs of uncertainty over Denmark, where a wave of sabotage had broken out. From Sweden came reports (possibly Nazi-inspired) that the Wehrmacht had rushed in heavy reinforcements, seven infantry and two armored divisions, to bolster its position along the Danish Jutland peninsula...
...Author. When Edith Almedingen was ten, she talked to Leo Tolstoy about Homer. So, at least, her kinspeople told her. Tolstoy thought she might become a poet. Her father was a scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...
...Danish-born George Olsen, onetime farmer and poultry operator, beneficiary of this nomenclatural luck, used his newfound fame to popularize his hobby. To correspondents he distributed copies of his formula for squaring the circle, which he has worked on since...
...Sorensen. Danish-born Sorensen came to the U.S. at the age of four. As a youth he worked as a patternmaker in his father's stove shop in Detroit, caught the eye of Henry Ford by turning out patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant...
...within a few days after publication-so another of Scott's jobs is to follow what the people of each nation are themselves being told about how the war is going. He reads papers in German, Russian and Swedish himself-has a multilingual secretary read those in Finnish, Danish and Norwegian, telling him the high spots and translating the full text of the most important items. And very soon he plans a trip to distracted Finland to see for himself what is happening to that unhappy land...