Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's clergy was piously thunderstruck to learn of the U.S. general's prayers. Said the Rev. Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...
...counter, originally as a remedy for intestinal worms and the itch (scabies). Since its anti-alcoholism qualities were discovered, Sweden has required a doctor's prescription for its Swedish equivalent, Abstinyl, to discourage dangerous experimenting by pranksters and well-meaning wives. Dr. Stig Hammergen has warned the Stockholm Woman's Medical Society that a mixture of Abstinyl and alcohol can kill people with weak hearts...
Although the traditional whole roast ham will be rationed to a few slices, Stockholm Stringer E. Michael Salzer cabled that the customary lutfisk and schnapps were plentiful. As usual, he planned to be on hand for the huge bonfire on Skansen, the famous open-air museum overlooking the city, and the annual rendition of Tennyson's New Year's poem by Veteran Actor Anders de Wahl. Along with other male Dubliner's, Stringer Alan Montgomery may kiss as many girls as he can during the five minutes after midnight...
...Stockholm, the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen recently conducted a debate between teen-agers on "Youth and the Church." Their comments seem to bear out Waugh's indictment. "I have not been to church since confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...
Next month in Stockholm, Dr. Müller, now 49, and the father of three, will receive the prize money (159,772 Swedish crowns-about...