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POUL BREHMER Kastrup, Denmark...
...week, Soprano Moore and Prince Gustaf Adolf were fellow passengers on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-3 bound for Stockholm. She was booked for a Stockholm concert. He was returning to his family after a week's hunting with The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard. At Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport the plane, piloted by 54-year-old Gerrit J. Geyssendorffer, climbed 150 feet, stalled, rolled over, slammed to the ground and exploded...
...Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, who was Sweden's pretty, blonde Princess Ingrid...
...aroused Berlin Schupos (police) to order it cut out of The Very Last Minute. Meanwhile slandered Edward, who had paused for only an hour in Hamburg, was winging toward Copenhagen, escorted by four squadrons of Danish Air Force Planes. Ten thousand Danes roared a welcome as he landed at Kastrup, Copenhagen's airport, and was warmly greeted by Crown Prince Frederik, Prince Valdemar (the King of Denmark's uncle) and three of his sons, Prince Erik, Prince Viggo and Prince Axel. Exclaimed Britain's Edward, whose grandmother was Denmark's Alexandria: "Do you know it has been 20 years since...
Next day came their moment of triumph. Some 50,000 persons were at Kastrup Airport, among them Hoiriis's mother, also among them two of Hillig's friends from Liberty, N. Y. Wreaths were hung about their necks, there were parades, medals, a great banquet at the Town Hall. King Christian X made Pilot Hoiriis a Knight of the ancient Order of Danebroge. But if Hoiriis felt half as proud as Otto Hillig, he failed to show...
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