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Back from Denmark to resume his one-man show, this time in Los Angeles' Greek Theater, puckish Pianist Victor Borge happily described his newly purchased, 237-year-old castle near Copenhagen as "larger than Lauritz Melchior, although smaller than the Waldorf-Astoria." Called Frydenlund, the place has no ghosts or battlements (he says it qualifies as a castle because four Kings have lived there), but it does have a 1,600-tree apple orchard and a lot of modern orchard equipment, which he calculates will pay for itself "in exactly 216 years...
...Million Shots. Vaccines of the general type developed by Dr. Salk have been widely used only in the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Australia and Israel. Noting 1956's 50% drop in polio in the U.S., the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. Alexander Langmuir saw increasingly good results ahead: "With increasing immunization of the population under 40, a steady reduction in paralytic cases can be confidently anticipated." Denmark, long hard-hit by polio, had the brightest progress report: 99% of children up to the age of nine and 90% of all Danes aged ten to 40 have had shots...
Proposed costume for Actress Jayne Mansfield playing the Prince of Denmark [June 24]: "black tights, bare bodkin." Bodkin threw me for a loop, so I referred to my faithful dictionary, which states that a bodkin is "an instrument for drawing tape through a hem, a pointed instrument . . . a pin for fastening the hair." Even on Miss Mansfield, I can't imagine anything less interesting than a "bare bodkin...
...five authors of the report came from widely separated parts of the world and had been educated in profoundly different cultures, but they had one thing in common-they were all from what the U.N. calls "small nations": Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Tunisia and Uruguay. The bulk of the work of preparing the report fell on the shoulders of Keith Shann, able young (39) Australian statistician-turned-diplomat, who on the day of publication flew back to his post as Australian Ambassador in Manila. To Shann's credit, he maintained a detached attitude in the presentation of fact and conclusions...
Countries represented include the Belgian Congo, Ceylon, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaya, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Phillipines, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Vietnam, and the United States...