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...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 a crown is a special-occasion headpiece: "I only wear it when I'm in Denmark.'' The answer did not quite satisfy the boy, who later told newsmen...
...their Prime Minister, which they blame on Nasser's "hirelings," the Jordanian authorities at first were prepared to deal harshly with the pilot of the U.A.R. jet who swooped helplessly down to an emergency bellylanding near Amman after reconnoitering along Jordan's frontier. But the Syrian lad who climbed out of the cockpit seemed too young to be shot, too honest and helpful even to punish severely. Instead, the Jordanians decided that Lieut. Adnan Madani, 24, would make a useful propaganda weapon to embarrass Gamal Abdel Nasser. By trotting Madani out as a "defector," Jordan could "prove" that...
...grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good time for Harpers Ferry and Bleeding Kansas...
...around every thing except the local schoolhouse and is just old enough to appreciate the fact that he is just small enough to be hip-high to a pair of toreador pants. Sophia plays the sort of doll who scratches where she itches, and sees nothing wrong with the lad's education. Gable, of course, tries to reform Marietto. "After all," he reasons, "you're part American." Says the live-end kid: "You no tell anyone, I no tell anyone." When Gable sees the boy touting for Sophia's gin mill late one night, he tells...
...heavy with the fresh impact of Asia. "Everything was so moving," recalls one officer. "The poverty, the filth, the sickness, the pressure of Communism." Soon the ship buzzed with a plan: send an Asian boy to college. The crew approved unanimously-as long as they could choose the lad personally and keep an eye on him in home port Pearl Harbor...