Word: kristian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norwegians and scores of newsmen greeted Governor Rockefeller at Kristiansand airport. Three photographers were knocked down and trampled, and a flying wedge of Rockefellers protected Anne-Marie from being crushed. Rocky embraced Anne-Marie and called her a "wonderful and intelligent girl." He shook hands with her leathery father, Kristian Rasmussen, 67, who was also being jostled, and asked Anne-Marie to tell him in Norwegian that he was a "good sport." One of Steven's sisters exclaimed at seeing Anne-Marie's brightly embroidered blouse and dirndl skirt: "What a pretty dress! Is it Swedish?" Answered Norwegian...
Newspapers seethed with letters demanding that 74-year-old Theologian Hallesby be bounced off the air for his fundamentalist ideas, or defending him as God's prophet to a backsliding world. As the controversy bubbled on, an old theological opponent of Hallesby's, Bishop Kristian Schjelderup, 60, of Hamar, entered the argument. Hallesby's idea of Hell, he said, is based on "doubtful and imperfect interpretations that others are applying to the straight words of Christ...