Word: gudrun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell. Despite the new glitter of big names, one of the most popular narrators of "kidisks" is Los Angeles' Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen, 74, a bright-eyed grandmother who records the folk tales of her native Norway. (In 1911, while teaching school, she wrote them down in a book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon.) She had been telling the tales to her students and grandchildren for years but did not record them until 1944, and then for the Library of Congress. When RCA Victor heard the records, it hired...