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...King Frederik of Denmark, "strongest monarch in history" [TIME, May 21]: this claim by his onetime physical instructor, in behalf of the Danish sovereign, might reasonably be disputed by a Thracian peasant, C. Julius Maximinus...
Cheered on by his royal father, Prince Knud, brother of Denmark's King Frederik and heir apparent to the crown, eleven-year-old Prince Ingolf set off in a 1,300-ft. soapbox derby near Copenhagen. His car hit a top speed of more than 18 m.p.h., but he finished eighth...
...greatest decreases [in TB] and the lowest mortality rates in the world have occurred in places where BCG has not been used," said Dr. Myers. In Denmark, where BCG has been extensively, used, the death rate was cut in 30 years from 174 to 30 per 100,000, but in Iceland, with similar people and conditions, it has been cut in 20 years from 203 to 26 without BCG. In Rio de Janeiro, the death rate has dropped among unvaccinated adults but increased among BCG-vaccinated infants...
...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
...Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, escorted across the North Sea by three British destroyers, arrived in England for the first state visit by a Danish sovereign since 1914. After a Buckingham Palace banquet and a Guildhall luncheon, King Frederik was host at a Danish embassy party where he calmly broke tradition by smoking during dinner, was calmly imitated by his guest of honor, King George VI. Frederik, proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor...