Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After eating the dust of John Landy and Jim Bailey while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played...
...Denmark, where the student should estimate on $70 a month, there is a Committee for the Propagation of Knowledge about Denmark Abroad which holds courses in Copenhagen all summer. The tuition for each four-week course on Denmark is $15. Special sessions for men and women at the Fredensborg College of Physical Education are conducted in English July 29 to August...
...friends on Grace's own invitation list include the Alfred Hitchcocks, the Cary Grants, the David Nivens, Frank Sinatra. Ava Gardner, Bing Crosby. The palace at Monaco announced that invitations had gone to foreign royalty and heads of state, including President Eisenhower. But the crowned heads of Britain, Denmark and Sweden let it be known that they could not make it, and presidential assistants rummaged through the White House last week without finding an invitation. Prince Rainier also told newsmen that New York's Cardinal Spellman would be on hand to watch the Bishop of Monaco perform...
Anderson, born in New Jersey but raised and educated in Denmark, joined the U.S. Army, and reached the Korean front two days before Christmas Day 1950. Only a few weeks later his company (reconnaissance, 7th Infantry Division) was trapped behind the enemy lines. For 24 hours the outfit fought to break through the surrounding Chinese and make a dash for the town of Hoeng-song, which was held by Dutch allies. It is hard to believe that without this experience behind him, Author Anderson could have brought off so knowledgeable a performance as Your Own Beloved Sons. At any rate...
...weird and widespread effects. Short-wave communication about the globe was severely crippled, and telephone communications between New York, London and Rome were totally disrupted for several hours. For seven panicky hours the British Admiralty lost contact with the submarine Acheron, which was cruising in the frigid waters of Denmark Strait...