Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Lieut. Edward John Behn (rhymes with lean), U.S.N.R., 23, aide to the Chief Allied Commissioner for Italy, son of I.T. & T.'s canny president Sosthenes Behn; and Francesca Brigida Sapuppo, 21, daughter of the late Baron . Sapuppo, onetime Italian Minister to Denmark; both for the first time; in Rome...
...more the physicists learn, the less they are sure of. Last week a glittering tribe of top-rank physicists met at Princeton as part of the University's bicentennial celebration. Conference high points: addresses by Nobel Prizewinners Paul A. M. Dirac, of Britain, and Denmark's Niels Bohr, both of whom stressed the scientist's extraordinary difficulty in describing the simplest things...
Borch, who helped edit an underground newspaper in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, stressed the tremendous amount of reconstruction to be done before Continental universities resume even a semblance of their former stature. As an example, he cited the University of Warsaw, where only one of 48 buildings remains intact after the devastation wrought by the Nazis. The lone survivor, ironically, is the University library, without its books...
...slow-acting insulin solutions, developed by Denmark's Dr. H. C. Hagedorn, allow diabetics to get along on less frequent injections (often only one a day). A.D.A. President Joseph Barach summed up: with insulin plus careful (but ample) diet, "the diabetic patient can now expect to live an almost normal life...
...Born. To Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 47, and Crown Princess Ingrid, 36: their third daughter (none of them can succeed to the Danish throne); in Copenhagen. Weight: 3,200 grams...