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...downtown Copenhagen rather than in the gloomy, inconvenient Christiansborg Castle where the royal family lived in the past. And they did not revolt when a too-candid picture revealed that the towering (6 ft. 4 in.), rugged King had a chestful of tattoos. Norwegians felt genuinely sorry for King Olaf, a dedicated yachtsman and onetime Olympics champion, when Khrushchev's visit forced him to forgo a regatta at Hanko Island last week...
...meter yacht class at the 1964 Olympics. Sailing the Fram III, designed by U.S. Master Draftsman Bill Luders, Harald is rated a good bet for a medal of some sort, but it had better be gold if he is to maintain status in court circles. Both his father, King Olaf, and his good friend, Greece's King Constantine, hold gold medals for sailing won at the Olympics...
...than her drawing) of an abandoned doll. Her subtle internal rhymings reveal a feeling for line that is also found in parts of Robert Dawson's overlong poem about German prisoners of war in Minnesota. Portions of this work reflect the same evocative power of Cummings' "I Sing of Olaf" ("You think . . . it makes you worthy of control to have control./But my heart is bigger than your heart/And I will outbleed you.") Yet it lacks the swiftness and compression for which his incident cries. We find in this issue, as bonus, a poem which reads from the bottom...
This year Balliol (pronounced BALE-yul) is seven centuries old, and it celebrated the birthday in a flurry of skyrockets, French cuisine and champagne toasts. On hand were 2,000 Balliol graduates (Prime Minister Macmillan excused himself to dine with J.F.K.) from Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to King Olaf of Norway and Boston Financier William Appleton Coolidge. Whether or not Balliol really was 700-an agreed age more than a historic fact-they cheerily drank the ancient toast, Floreat dornus de Balliolo, meaning roughly, boola, boola Balliol...
...OLAF MALTERUD...