Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court's decision, based on a law passed in 1705, would grant the same privilege, on application, to the present Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece, the Queen of The Netherlands, the descendants of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and to some 400 other non-Roman-Catholic heirs, including the wives of an interior decorator in Amarillo, Texas and a lawyer in Springfield...
They climbed the Matterhorn, studied at Oxford for a summer, lived with a family in Denmark. Mrs. Gill filled some dozens of notebooks with odd facts and crisp comments. Last winter they came back home and began walking around North America, traveling comfortably between towns in a 1952 Cadillac, which is laden with complete wardrobes (including evening clothes). They have been at it for ten months and 15,000 miles, and feel they have hardly begun...
Atherosclerosis is the bugbear. It appears to attack the coronary arteries with especial frequency. And strangely, it is a disease of successful civilization and high living. It is far commoner in the U.S., Britain, Sweden and Denmark than among the poor peasants of Sardinia and southern Italy, the paddyfield workers of China and Japan, or Bantu tribesmen. It is commoner among men than among pre-menopausal women; after the menopause, women gradually become as susceptible as men, though it takes them until age 80 to catch up. Racial origin, body build, smoking habits and the amount of physical activity also...
...singers got off the Cunarder Saxoma at Greenock, Scotland, lined up on the pier on the River Clyde and began to sing (Loch Lomond). They kept singing all the way across Britain, Holland, Denmark and Germany-in crowded auditoriums, sight-seeing buses, third-class railway carriages and even on the streets. They had their share of crises, including-at Scheveningen, Holland-the loss of the conductor's white dress waistcoat (two local tailors provided a new one in exchange for a pair of tickets). Everywhere they are stirring up waves of good feeling and applause. Salt Lake City...
POUL BREHMER Kastrup, Denmark...