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...Japan, an Army C-54 rammed into a mountain: 40 killed. In Iceland, a U.S.-made DC-3, operated by Icelandic Airways, crashed into a mountain peak: 25 killed. The crashes were scarcely noticed, because disaster had also struck resoundingly at home...
Died. Christian X, 76, King of Denmark (and until 1944, Iceland), the Wends and the Goths; of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. The beloved monarch, Europe's tallest (6 ft. 6 in.-"I know I am too long"), remained in his little country during the war, a virtual prisoner of the occupying Germans, with whom he was coldly, contemptuously uncooperative...
Expand All Over. In four war years he earned $4 in salary working for the Government in a half-dozen top jobs. On one trip to England his ship was torpedoed off Iceland. Roused from his bunk, Taylor bobbed around the Atlantic in a lifeboat for six hours without his pants...
...Bishop of Fulham has to be a special kind of bishop. His diocese covers some 800,000 square miles of northern Europe, from Biarritz to Iceland. His flock consists mainly of Englishmen-on-holiday, diplomatic service staffs, finishing-school girls, other British transients and trippers. His duties involve constant travel, and an interminable round of social occasions that would deepen the rings under the eyes of a gossip columnist. But the new Bishop of Fulham who was consecrated at St. Paul's this week could hardly wait to start his peripatetic...
...Alaska to Iceland. 4. New York to Tokyo...