Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is an unusual cinebiography in that it candidly disclaims having anything to do with the facts of its subject's life. A foreword to the picture announces: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales...
...industry's toughest assignments. For example, when the Navy in 1943 wanted to review the fairness of its arrangements for developing the famed Elk Hills oil reserves, it called on Jacobsen for his advice. But Jacobsen dodged publicity, stayed in the background. When he went to Denmark in 1945 after a 20-year absence, the Copenhagen press could get so little out of him that it styled him "the Oil Garbo." (U.S. oilmen call him "the Great Dane...
...where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne again, driven toward Denmark by 95-m.p.h. tail winds. Scandinavian's route-blazing flight ended at Copenhagen, after a flying time of 23 hrs. 34 min. (plus stopovers of 4 hrs. 43 min.) from Los Angeles. Time in the air was 3½ hours less than the present commercial flight time...
...Danish reader, Paul Grene, who enclosed a picture of his very comfortable home, rashly extended an invitation to have TIME correspondents visit him. He wrote: "If one of your correspondents should happen to be in Denmark . . . and have a few days off, ask him to come over and see us. We have some pretty good fishing and shooting and a fairly comfortable spare room...
...Sweden. Among the special events: a gift contributed by his subjects, a check for 5,000,000 kroner ($966,500), which the King said would be used to further Swedish culture; an all-Wagnerian concert by the Royal Court Orchestra, conducted, after shirtsleeved rehearsals, by King Frederik of Denmark...