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Expressions of sympathy and commiseration were heaped on Fru Bang last week from far & wide. The Danish Minister of Justice. C. Th. Zahle, who is responsible for her just trial, sympathized: "To me there is no evidence of criminal temperament in this case. But, on the contrary, love and pity for suffering. The new Danish penal code contains a provision for reducing the punishment to a minimum in cases where the sufferer asked assistance to die. Unfortunately for Else, however, the new code does not come into force until 1933, and the code of 1866, which is still in force...
This year's is the 25th annual seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals...
With the arrival from Denmark of a complete set of Kipling translated into Danish, the Widener Library now has the most complete collection of Kipling's works that there is in existence...
...Harvard collection at the Widener Room now includes works of Kipling in the following 22 languages: Bohemian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Servian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrapian, Yiddish...
...quiet had been the Esa's take-off that New York was startled to hear it was so near. But storms were still raging up & down the coast. Airports turned on beacons; anxious German, Danish and Portuguese consuls waited, wondered...