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...naval battle off the Danish coast between the fleets of Great Britain and Germany, in which, although the British lost 14 ships, 6,274 men and the Germans eleven ships, 2,545 men, Britain gained mastery of the seas for the remainder of the war. † On December 21: retaken on February 22 by Franco...
...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...
...official biographer. Every German has heard the War story illustrating Göring's Chivalry. Göring, one of the Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...
...three F. W. Woolworth stores in New York carried on picket placards day after 25-year-old Countess Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara Hutton) spent five minutes in a courtroom on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated...
Most of the early Jensen ware was made by Jensen himself. Even after he stopped doing the actual work, he continued to conceive the designs and made working drawings for them. Since 1916 he has attached to his establishment some of the leading Danish artists, thus forming the famous School of Georg-Jensen...