Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...
Religious humanist Hesse is a novelist and poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...
Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...
Percy Williams Bridgman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and natural Philosophy, was named as the 1946 Nobel Prize Winner in the field f Physics by the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm yesterday...
Died. Princess Ebba Bernadotte, 87, onetime lady-in-waiting at the Swedish Court, morganatic wife of King Gustav's younger brother Oscar Carl August, mother of Swedish Red Cross president Count Folke Bernadotte; in Stockholm...