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...Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other orphaned Norwegian, German, Finnish and Danish missions...
Typical request is that of the 15 Germans in the Rhenish Mission (Reformed) near Canton: "We naturally only ask for our daily bread. So $20 would be enough for one person a month." Danish missionaries in Nigeria, where living is still cheaper, said they could keep going on $10 a month for married couples, $7.50 for single workers...
...stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala Bim is actually a phrase from a Danish folk song, is roughly translatable as Ta-ra-ra-boom...
...Angeles, Five-&-Ten Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, who, as the wife of a Danish nobleman, renounced her U. S. citizenship, possibly to escape $21,000,000 in inheritance taxes, submitted to registration and fingerprinting as an alien...
Some meat cuts were still a rarity last week but better-class German restaurants included snails, lobster, frogs' legs, crabs, trout and caviar in their menus while promising their customers succulent Schweinebraten and Wiener Schnitzel to be carved from one million Danish pigs and 10,000 cattle condemned for slaughter because of a fodder shortage. Supplies from Denmark and Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises...