Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highest paid: Britain's George VI, with $1,148,000. Denmark's Frederik IX gets $296,671; The Netherlands' Juliana, $263,158; Greece's Paul I, $230,000; Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, $146,000; Norway's Haakon...
Divided Credit. In Denmark, where BCG has been widely used, the tuberculosis death rate has been reduced over the last two decades from 71 to 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations...
...measure. With profits from record sales, the society has published the first of 63 volumes of Haydn's collected works. Landon (and seven other stockholders) can now survey a corporation which will gross $150,000 this year, numbers some of the world's outstanding Haydn authorities (including Denmark's Jens Peter Larsen, Boston's Karl Geiringer) on its advisory board. Nonetheless, the society's 19 staff members in Boston, New York and Vienna still limit their salaries to a $60-a-week top. Says Landon: "Every cent net goes back into the 'Complete Works...
...Even more impressive were the company's top officials. The president was white-haired, handsome Paul V. McNutt who, as War Manpower Commissioner and High Commissioner to the Philippines, was a king in the New Deal deck. Vice President was Josiah Marvel Jr., onetime Ambassador to Denmark and recently appointed by President Truman to the International Claims Commission. McNutt, Marvel & Co. hoped to sell 500,000 shares of American-Canadian stock at $3.50 apiece (par value...
Died. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, 77, Denmark's leading man of letters; in Copenhagen. Author of 60-odd books and reams of essays, Jensen was most famous for The Long Journey, a massive fictional history of primitive man, won a Nobel Prize in 1944. He was seldom translated and thus little known outside Denmark, where he was a bestseller (The Long Journey did not appear in full in the U.S. until...