Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 49, set off on a world concert tour, all astir over her first command performance-before Denmark's King Frederik IX in Copenhagen-and a scheduled audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome. Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Said the Baptist contralto: "That's the most important thing in my life-to walk the streets where our Lord once walked...
Your article on enticing tourists to this country was immediately sent to my mother in Denmark, who this summer will be making her sixth contribution to the tourist-gap cause. She is a devotee of the drugstore, which to her is a most amusing American phenomenon. She thinks it is hilarious to eat a hamburger in a regular apotek and loves to listen to the vernacular exchanges between the cook and the waiters, which completely baffle her. When she is there, she stocks up on those special favorites of her Danish grandchildren: multicolored Band-Aids, Silly Putty and Hershey chocolate...
...Denmark: William McCormick Blair Jr., 44, lawyer with no diplomatic experience. Second cousin of the Chicago Tribune's late publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick, moneyed Bill Blair served as administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, became his law partner, campaign manager and general political handyman...
...pretty exwife, Ginette, or drink in bistros with a few old army buddies. He traveled about Europe, supporting himself by small-scale smuggling and illegal currency deals. In Copenhagen, one of those entranced by his tall tales was a stunning, 20-year-old blonde, Ingelise Bodin, who was Miss Denmark in London's 1960 Miss World contest...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. Crystalline recollections, by Denmark's greatly gifted author, of a decade (1921-31) spent in Kenya; her theme, written as an elegy, is the relation of master and servant...