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Slowly, Anne walked through the hall on the arm of her uncle Erik Frederik Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
...Russia's Grand Duchess Olga, youngest sister of the late Czar Nicholas, was Canada-bound after 27 years of farming in Denmark. The Russians had begun to question her status, so Olga & family left Denmark to avoid embarrassing the government, to farm in Canada...
Tired but happy: Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, after a holiday at their hunting lodge. The maid fell ill and couldn't work. A neighbor found the Queen with a dishrag, begged to help out in some way. Came the King's voice from another room: "Do not think of that ... I have to do the vacuum-cleaning...
When Dizzy Gillespie hit Sweden and Denmark, the halls were barely big enough to hold all the beboppers; in Paris, zealous French zazous (jazz fans) came to blows over him. Last week, Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was full of beboppers. Bebop* was apparently no laughing matter...
...Reconstruction & Development announced that it had come profitably through its salad days. In nine months, President John J. McCloy had turned the World Bank's $1,063,805 deficit into $1,178,792 profit. Chief income: interest on $497,000,000 in loans to France, The Netherlands, Denmark and Luxemburg...