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...Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White House at Shadow Lawn, N.J., went on political outings to a Long Island inn near the Good Ground estate of Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, rode ponyback on Governor Al Smith's Great Dane, Caesar...
...going through a sheaf of papers at his kneehole desk in the small office to the right of the front door. Though nominally retired since 1954, he is interested in many of the island's good works. Unobtrusively, he is building a small public park on the old Dane estate on a scenic headland near Seal Harbor, acquiring more land for the island's roomy Acadia National Park, paying the hospital bills of a local family, laying plans for the removal of more of the unsightly "snags" (tree stumps) left by the 1947 Bar Harbor fire, making...
...personnel mine left over from 1948 war days. Next day shooting broke out on a nearby hillside where the Israelis had set newcomers to terracing farmland a few yards from the Jordan border. The U.N.'s Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier...
...Aksel Schotz (Victor). Imported recordings of one of the world's most accomplished tenors, made during his golden years (1940s). Not only does the Dane's voice fall pleasantly on the ears, but his art makes every number-from Buxtehude to Mozart-sound as informal as a pop tune...
...moving from the stage to TV, Borge's show suffered a loss of the intimacy that the unmelancholy Dane's comic style demands. The hilarious mood of Comedy in Music was also seriously damaged by an overlong potpourri of Tchaikovsky melodies, played by a full orchestra and conducted by a Borge suddenly turned serious maestro. But despite everything, his comic talents survived the screen, and he got his deserved laughs as he coughed his way through Debussy's Claire de Lune, tangoed his way through Jealousy while sitting at the piano, doublecrossed the studio audience by playing...