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King Frederik IX of Denmark, 49, made good use of his early naval training during a minor domestic crisis at Amalienborg Palace. When the curtains in the valet's room caught fire, the agile monarch tore downstairs, threw a glass of water on the blaze, then doused it with a bucketful from the kitchen. To an admiring fire squad, he modestly shrugged the whole thing off: "Lucky thing I learned in my youth how to handle a pail of water...
...little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...
...charity, Denmark's King Frederik IX led the Royal Opera Orchestra through two overtures and a symphony. Thirty copies of the recordings will be offered in an anti-tuberculosis lottery, and a few others may be sold at steep prices...
Life as an athlete did not begin for Denmark's Bendtsine Bendtsen until she was over 40. At that sedate age, she began practicing gymnastics with the local ladies' team and pedaling a bicycle through the countryside. Last week, after first getting permission from her teacher, Bendtsine made her big try for a gold badge awarded by the Danish Athletic Association...
...Southampton, the Queen Elizabeth, free at last of the dockers' strike and loaded with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces of the fog that hung heavy and motionless over some 500 miles of Europe...