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...friend?"-a reference to the fact that in 1931 Mrs. Owen & family toured that country with a Curtis Aerocar (a two-wheeled trailer containing a kitchenet and four bunks). Madam Minister Owen, who lost her Florida seat in the House March 4. promptly revealed that she had found some Danish ancestors who arrived in the U. S. in 1636. Said she: "I am very happy to have been assigned this post because of my father's connection with foreign affairs. When I was a little girl my favorites of all stories were those of Hans Christian Andersen. I always...
Denmark's rage at this "impudence" was not softened by the fact that Denmark had ruled Greenland philanthropically at a loss. It could easily have made it pay but it has shut out all foreign immigration except for some 300 Danish cryolite miners. Its policy is to keep Greenland safe for the "kindhearted, trusting Eskimos." To keep Eskimos happy, Denmark now furiously claimed every foot of Greenland...
Separated. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., 24, film actor; and Joan Crawford Fairbanks, 25 this week, film actress; the day after one Jorgen Dietz, Danish chemical engineer, sued Fairbanks for $50,000 for alienation of his divorced wife Solveig's "maliciously debauched" affections and for $20,000 for four hours' false imprisonment last December when Fairbanks charged extortion. Said Mrs. Fairbanks: "The Dietz suit has nothing to do with our separation. We've really been separated a whole year. This is the only brave thing for us to do." Mrs. Dietz in Copenhagen said Fairbanks would...
Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts...
Susanne, while still on the presses, won first Danish prize in the 1931 Inter-Scandinavian Novel Contest, might therefore be considered Denmark's Novel-of-the-Year. Author Buchholtz is comparatively unknown in the U. S., but not so is his translator, Swedish Litterateur Edwin Bjorkman...