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...repeatedly while he saw his wife for the last time. Ernst Kaltenbrunner desperately tried to kiss his mistress (and mother of his two children) through the grille of the visitors' room. Wilhelm Frick moaned: "All is finished, and there isn't much use waiting around." Goring read Bengt W. K. Berg's To Africa with the Migratory Birds. Funk (who had escaped with life) read Paul de Kruif's Men against Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Forgive Us Our Sins . . . | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

Meeting at Harvard Observatory, a small group of leading U.S. astronomers agreed last week that a Swedish physicist, Bengt Edlen, had just thrown a good deal of light on the sun. It concerned the nature of the sun's corona-its turbulent halo of incandescent gases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on the Sun | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Included in the list of distinguished scholars who will be present are Federal Workshops Supervisor Leonard M. Barker, John M. Brown, noted dramatic critic, and Bengt Edlen, of the University of Upsala, Sweden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 45 ARE APPOINTED TO SUMMER SCHOOL POSTS | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

Conscious of his responsibilities, worried about how to meet them, Bengt stumbled on the program of the Swedish fascists, thought his problems were solved. He accepted their slogan: "The watchword of the time is action." He tried to make himself hard, defiant, intolerant, although inwardly he was uncertain and usually felt sorry for people in trouble. When he speculated about the waste and agony in his mother's life he decided that corrupt liberalism was back of it all. He came to believe that sinister international bankers were responsible for his financial difficulties, that these same bankers were fomenting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocked Swede | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...dozen individual dramas reached their climaxes word came to Holinge that the old owner, de Grévy, was returning to claim his own. And as a last turn of the screw Bengt learned that he was de Grévy's son. The wastrels, thieves, slanderers huddled together on the old farm on a stormy Easter to await the old man's vengeance, found his homecoming different from anything they could have anticipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocked Swede | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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