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...fragile, age-yellowed pages in Tidende's library, where bound copies of the paper date back to 1749. That was the year that Ernst Henrich Berling, a Copenhagen printer, secured a license to send news through the royal mail. The license has long since expired, along with Frederik V, the monarch who granted it. Frederik IX now sits on the throne. Ernst Berling, too, died long ago. But six successive generations of Berlings have preserved Tidende's title as the oldest newspaper in the world...
...Danish spirit of restraint pervades even Copenhagen's two tabloids-Tidende's B.T. and the competitive Ekstra Bladet. Neither prints cheesecake, not for fear of giving offense, but because Danes find such displays boring: there are much better views at the beach. In any other country, King Frederik IX's three unmarried daughters would make sentimental copy, but the tabs mostly ignore them. When Princess Anne-Marie, the youngest and fairest, embarked on a mild romance with Prince Constantin of Greece. B.T. agonized awhile, then decided to be sensational. "Is this more than friendship?" it asked...
Nine students have been selected for the March 29 finals of the Boylston Public Speaking Contest. They are: Beeker Bradshaw '62, Peter A. Flynn '62, Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, Robert W. Gordon '62, David G. Gulette '62, Lewis B. Kaden '63, Stanley F. Pickett '62, Frederik Q. Rice '63, and Phillip L. Stotter...
...that divide Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician with United Africa 38 years ago-is popularly considered...
Last year Torun won the Gold Medal at Milan's Triennale and a few months later got the coveted, U.S.-endowed Lunning Prize (it was Frederik Lunning who introduced Georg Jensen to the U.S.). Last week she had two shows running concurrently in the Museums of Fine Arts in Oslo and Copenhagen-a rich array of swirling and sparkling silver lightly sprinkled with semiprecious stones...