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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This successful blend of faith and finance, according to Myra Kiimalehto, was at first administered jointly by Thor, her slight, pince-nezed Swedish immigrant husband, and ex-Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Life | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Lewis died in 1939, Kiimalehto in 1948. Mrs. Kiimalehto, who has not been a practicing Rosicrucian for four years, says that she is not interested in money but in rescuing AMORC from the control of Lewis' son, daughter-in-law and widow. Last week Rosicrucian leaders filed their answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Life | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Union. U.S. counterpart of Lloyd's Register is the 87-year-old American Bureau of Shipping, which handles marine rating for nearly all U.S. flag vessels. Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: A1 v. O.K. | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

When 25-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his store on Manhattan's lower Broadway in the 1837 depression, he quickly learned that a store can be too exclusive for its own good. In his first three days, his door was darkened so rarely by customers that receipts totaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Tiffany's Splits | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Someone else did. And thereby hangs the tale told in Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8), perhaps the most remarkable English mystical writer since William Blake, a man whose life and work have had strong influence in the religious thinking of such leading British intellectuals as T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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