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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knut Toring was a Swedish peasant boy who read so many books that his parents thought he must be a little crazy. As soon as he was big enough, Knut dashed off to Stockholm, made himself into an intellectual, eventually became editor of Leisure Hours, a Swedish Saturday Evening Post. But he insisted on giving his readers not what they wanted to read but what he thought they ought to want. Result: canceled subscriptions. This perversity among subscribers, trouble with his wife, and a revival of his feeling for the good earth finally split Editor Toring's personality three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Half-Baked Hero | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...extremities, is new but already familiar to U. S. cinemaddicts. In 1939, on a hurried trip to Hollywood, she made Intermezzo; and all Hollywood learned about her was that she was tall (5 ft., 8 in.), shy, had a husband and a baby named Pia back home in Stockholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots, arresting some who abetted the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Hit-and-Ruin Raids | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...specialist in systematic terror, Heinrich Himmler last week began, to rectify Vidkun Quisling's shortcomings. Three Norse operators of a secret radio station were sentenced to death, prison warders were ordered to make things tougher for political prisoners. But Norway still was not scared (see p. 70). From Stockholm came reports that Norway's ever doughty ministers had read openly from their pulpits a forbidden letter from Norway's seven bishops, condemning Quisling and the Nazis root and branch (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: The Terror Begins | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...International Physiological Congress in Stockholm, some 15 years ago, Monkey-Gland Specialist Serge Voronoff presented a paper on rejuvenation. Ajax denounced him with prompt violence. "I know the case of a 'rejuvenated man' in the United States," he began, "who felt young until he receifed his physician's bill. Dot vas so high he suddenly felt old again.'' Voronoff stalked out in a dudgeon, swore he would never attend another meeting where Dr. Carlson was present. But Ajax got a burst of applause and an enthusiastic kiss from a bearded French scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Scientist's Scientist | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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