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...that Danish doctors had converted him into a woman (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, fittingly, it was the News which best answered the "who, what, when, where" as it reported Christine's gala homecoming. Said the News: "Christine Jorgensen, the lad who became a lady, arrived home from Denmark yesterday, lit a cigarette like a girl, husked 'Hello' and tossed off a Bloody Mary like a guy, then opened her fur coat. Jane Russell has nothing to worry about...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale in Technicolor, about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
Royal Stroke. When the painted faces were properly cleaned, they proved to be meticulously accurate. Anne of Denmark (queen of James I) has blue veins and a pimple on her cheek. Edward III (d. 1377) is an original death mask and possibly the oldest European example, since the well-known death mask of Dante (d. 1321) may be a fake. When Edward III was in his last illness, his mistress, Alice Ferrers, ran off with the rings from his fingers. The shock of this betrayal brought on the stroke that finished him off. Neurologists consulted by Howgrave-Graham agreed that...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...