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When Farmer Olof Ohman stumbled across this laconic (but, to him, illegible) account of adventure and death, near Kensington, Minn, in 1898, he had no idea of the importance of his find. The story was carved on a 200-lb. stone he dug out of a small hill that had once been an island in an ancient lake. The inscription was written in more than 200 runes, the ancient alphabet of the Norse. Ever since the carving was first translated, the Kensington Stone has been one of the most fascinating exhibits in the history of the daring Norse seamen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Olof Ohman's Runes | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...summer of 1948, the late Count Folke Bernadotte asked Jussi to sing at a P.ed Cross benefit opera performance in Stockholm. He also asked Anna-Lisa if she wouldn't like to sing again. Anna-Lisa thought it over: their three children, Anders, 12, Lars-Olof, 10, and Ann-Charlotte, 5, were all out of infancy; she decided to try to pick up her promise of a career. Jussi and Anna-Lisa sang La Boheme together at the benefit-so successfully that Stockholm's Royal

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Career No. 2 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Engineering School: Gordon McKay scholarship to Olof E. H. Rydbeck, of Goteberg, Sweden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 18 GRADUATE MEN GET FUNDS TOTALING $8, 494 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Donald D. Matson, Altadena, California; Bruce Shopard, Alton, Illinois; Olof H. Pearson, Boston; Laurence L. Stuppy, Los Angles, California; William S. Fields, Flushing, New York; Maurice Franks, Lawrence; Carl C. Johnson, Schenectady, New York; Albert P. Heusner, York, Nebraska; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Michigan; Francis McC. Ingersoll, Tecumsch, Nebraska; Calvin T. Klopp, Reading, Pennsylvania; John B. Hickam, Washington, D. C.; Bernard Rapoport, Hartford, Connecticut; Charles W. Sorenson, Logan, Utah; Frederick F. Ross, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Donald N. Sweeney Jr., Detroit, Michigan; Russell Wigh, Hoboken, New Jersey; Francis T. Gophart, Bronxville, New York; and Bernard German, Newark, New Jersey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $10,025 In Fellowships Go To 41 Students of Medicine | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

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