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...Denmark has a more ambitious campaign. A series of ten radio talks, including some by beauty specialists and doctors, urges Danes to "look better." Fanny Jensen, Cabinet Minister Without Portfolio (in practice, minister for women's affairs), began the series two weeks ago. Looking neat but not gaudy, 59-year-old Minister Jensen gave good reason for her advice. Said she: "When I was working in a factory, nobody gave us any advice how to keep looking young and pretty, although the bosses always chose the best-looking girls for the jobs...
Desperate hospital officials called in Dr. Albert E. Heustis, Michigan's Health Commissioner. Dr. Heustis and his staff sent to Scotland and Denmark for samples of a peculiarly virulent strain, previously reported only from Europe and catalogued by Danish experts as O-111, of the normally harmless coliform bacteria. An identical form was found in the bowels of 90% of Port Huron's infected babies...
...caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised as a traveling salesman, hit out for Danzig. In Stettin Peter and John had no end of trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into Denmark and hand them over to the Danish underground. Half a dozen harrowing adventures later, they reached the British consulate in Göteborg, Sweden, to learn that their fellow escapee had arrived by way of Danzig a full week earlier...
...Copenhagen, Puffed Wheat Heir John Pierce Anderson, an abstract artist of Red Wing, Minn., gave an adequate performance in a tough role. As he arrived in Denmark with Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson and their two children, he was asked the inevitable question ("How does it feel to be the husband of the first U.S. woman ambassador?"). Anderson thought solemnly for a moment, eyed the reporters with a twinkle and muttered: "A difficult question...
...coeds who knit in class, nothing irritates him more than people who refuse to look back. "Anyone who thinks that the world began in 1921," he snaps, "has missed the boat as a human being." Before each of Shakespeare's plays, he carefully lays the scene-the Denmark of Hamlet, the England of the Henrys, a physical description of Cleopatra ("I fumble around with this damn business to make the past seem eloquent"). Then he launches into the plays themselves, acting out each part. "Students must experience Shakespeare," he says, "not just read his words...