Word: frederik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 49, set off on a world concert tour, all astir over her first command performance-before Denmark's King Frederik IX in Copenhagen-and a scheduled audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome. Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Said the Baptist contralto: "That's the most important thing in my life-to walk the streets where our Lord once walked...
...sunny afternoon in Manhattan's Central Park, Denmark's visiting King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid appeared with Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge beside a statue of Denmark's greatest teller of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen. Borge, wearing half-spectacles "for very short stories.'' read two Andersen tales to some 100 bemused tots. The children could not quite feign indifference to a real King and Queen, and at one point a local lad asked chainsmoking Frederik pointblank: "King, where is your crown? I thought all Kings wore crowns." Affable Frederik explained that...
...boast. "Ours is a little room," Art Historian Christian Elling once explained, "on the top floor of the big European museum." This week the U.S. public will be able to see just what the little room has produced. In Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, His Majesty King Frederik IX, accompanied by Queen Ingrid, will cut a golden ribbon to open the largest display of Danish art ever shown in the U.S.-a charming and sometimes dazzling harvest of 100 industrious centuries...