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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convent was founded shortly after the war by two Bible teachers, Dr. Klara Schlink, daughter of an engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Different Sisters | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...dangerous drugs hidden in popular products (100,000,000 Guinea Pigs), advertisers turned apoplectic and many a consumer turned pale. Kallet, a dark, intense young M.I.T.-trained engineer with a talent for pricking advertising humbug, had learned much of his lore by working with co-author Frederick J. Schlink's Consumers Research, Inc. which reported on the quality of consumer products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Consumer's Report | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

After a break with Schlink, Kallet in 1936 formed his rival Consumers Union, which eventually outdistanced Consumers Research to become the best-known tester of consumer products in the U.S. Paying himself a starting salary of $10 a week, Kallet and five technicians issued monthly Consumer Reports, advised readers how to save money on everything from tooth paste (use precipitated chalk) to fly spray (mix pyrethrum powder and kerosene). By this year 900,000 subscribers were paying $5 a year for the reports, and the Union had 75 part-time shoppers in 50 cities, a headquarters staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Consumer's Report | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...Christian Hope. The Rector of Heidelberg University, Dr. Edmund Schlink of Germany's Evangelical Church, opened the discussion on the assembly's main theme: "Christ-the Hope of the World." Speaking for the characteristic European point of view, Professor Schlink saw Christ's salvation not of the world but out of it. "Christ is the end of the world," he said. "The name of Christ is taken in vain if it is used as a slogan in this world's struggle for its own preservation . . . Jesus Christ then is the hope of the world . . . because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Word & Theology | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

High on the dais, coatless and perspiring in the muggy heat. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway leaned to a colleague while Schlink was talking and got off a clerical crack. "The Word was made the ology and did not dwell among us," he whispered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Word & Theology | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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