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Hope & Humor. German soldiers stormed that impudent Belgians asked them: "Have you packed your bags yet?" A Danish bookseller put two huge portraits of Hitler and Mussolini in his window. Between them, he placed a copy of Les Misérables...
...Browning wrote of was reported last week from London (where the news had been picked up from Denmark's Nazi-controlled Kalundborg radio). On April 30 death had come to 82-year-old Jens Otto Harry Jespersen after an operation in Roskilde's hospital. In this handsome Danish giant of scholarship, English grammar lost its greatest living historian, Europe an outstanding humanist...
...realist. Upon English grammar he gazed with a fondly passionate eye, that knew and loved it as it was, not as it should be. Upon England he looked somewhat as though she were Denmark's interesting offspring.* A Social-Democrat, Jespersen liked neither capital letters (used for all Danish nouns) nor kings (although he did not much mind Denmark's King Christian X). He saw traces of the democratic spirit in the very bones and muscles of English speech...
Scholar Jespersen continued work after the Nazi invasion, contrived to send a copy of a new article to a Columbia colleague. Said the colleague: "Under Hitlerism he must have been wretched." Last week Danish refugees cited their old proverb: "Death is a dying man's friend...
Fundamental principle of the Wire Recorder is not new. Danish Physicist Valdemar Poulsen first suggested it 40-odd years ago. Last week U.S. commercial radio sound engineers adopted a "show me" attitude toward the Wire Recorder. But if Inventor Camras' machine turned out to have bugs in it, the Army felt certain he could shoo them...