Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientist with one of the strongest claims to being Father of the Atom, Denmark's gentle-spoken Niels Bohr, 71, whose pioneering plunge into the heart of his subject won him a Nobel Prize...
...group will include military personnel from the Netherlands, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States...
...discouragement than Gunnar or his competitors ever knew. In the bitter winter of 1520, Gustav Eriksson Vasa, then 24 and a fugitive from a Jutland prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler of Sweden. The political slaughter had been designed to stifle Swedish resistance to the Union of Kalmar, which bound together Sweden, Denmark and Norway under one crown. But when the Dalecarlian peasants refused to believe young Vasa's tales of terror...
...attracted enthusiastic audiences to the Y.M.H.A.'s Kaufmann Auditorium. This season the series has expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although Polikoff has scheduled more American than foreign works, this week he is offering a selection of contemporary music from Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Impresario Polikoff also invites the composers being played to come and defend their music in open forum. Among those who have accepted so far this season: Roger Sessions, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Ruggles...
...Denmark's mustached Kurt Nielsen, 26, sometime madcap of the amateur-tennis circuit, minded his manners all the way through the U.S. indoor championships, foiled Dick Savitt's comeback in the semifinals, overpowered California's Herb Flam in the finals...