Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, TIME sent queries to its correspondents in a dozen cities, including one to TIME'S Stockholm stringer, E. M. Salzer. He went to Uddevalla, Sweden, to talk to Lisa's family, and there learned that the family name, now Bernstone, had been changed from Anderson. Hardly had the story reached the newsstands, when Miss Fremd received an excited call from Lisa. "Is that true about my name being Anderson?" she asked. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted. I think it is the funniest thing in the world. I sent my father a cable and asked...
...Sweden, Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet wondered tearfully "how a little country can hold itself alone in an evil world." In Istanbul, the daily Cumhuriyet sighed: "All we can do is pray to Allah that he grant some wisdom to humanity...
...from fashion. Lisa was born in the small Swedish town of Uddevalla (present pop. 22,675), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Bern-stone, a dentist. Lisa's father had changed his name from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still likes to when she swims at a deserted Long Island beach...
...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...
Many of the ocean-hoppers were making extra inducements to lure even more travelers' dollars. Last week, Scandinavian Airlines announced that its Stockholm-bound passengers could stop over in Glasgow, London or Paris for as long as they liked, at no extra charge. American Overseas Airlines, which is now taking U.S. tourists into Germany for the first time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip...