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...Vishinsky. This gesture, now considered as predictable as the arrival of the autumnal equinox, was the signal for Russia's annual demand that the Assembly eject Nationalist China and put Communist China in its place. With only a slight change from last year's line-up (e.g., Denmark switched to the pro-Peking side), the Assembly voted 43 to 11 to put off Red China's bid for another year. Vishinsky took the accounting gracefully, and the Assembly moved on to its business, some parliamentary, some oratorical, and, of course, much controversial...
...covered, tubular body was rooted in the ground, and for a hat she wore a fragment of a vase full of spreading greenery. She looked like Maud who had finally come into the garden and been left there too long. The lady was all clay, and the creation of Denmark's Bjorn Wiinblad (rhymes with keen blot), one of the brightest ceramists in the business...
Numbering nearly 90 in all, they were representatives of the present ruling houses of Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; disinherited princelings from Italy, France, Spain, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria; dynastic relics from kingdoms whose thrones had long since ceased to exist: Bourbon-Parmas, Mecklenburgs, Schaumburg-Lippes, Hesses, Thurn und Taxis, and Hohenlohe-Langenburgs...
...Regular Fellow. Fisher can be adamant. Most notable example: his stand against church marriage of the divorced, whether the "innocent party" or not. When, in 1950, the then Queen's niece, Lady Anson, innocent party in a divorce, was to marry Prince George of Denmark. Fisher ordered the clergyman who was to have performed the ceremony not to do so, also advised the Queen not to attend. The wedding was performed by a Danish Lutheran minister while the Queen discreetly cooled her heels in a drawing room...
Died. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, 68, whose appointment as U.S. Minister to Denmark (1933-36) made her America's first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, served in the House of Representatives (1929-33), found greatest happiness as Minister to Denmark but had to resign in 1936 when she married Borge Rohde, a captain in the King's palace guards...