DENMARK: Interrupted Plans

Handsome, popular, 40-year-old Prince Gustaf Adolf's future was assured. Famed in his own right as an Olympic champion horseman, he would one day succeed his 88-year-old grandfather and 64-year-old father as King of Sweden.

Soprano Grace Moore was always full of plans. They carried her from her Slabtown, Tenn. home to musical comedy, to opera, to Hollywood and back to opera and the concert stage. Last week her ears were still ringing with the cheers of some 4,000 fans in Copenhagen's biggest concert hall, where she had sung Ciribiribin. "When the Iron Curtain...

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