Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only surviving leader of the Edinburgh Conference of 1910 - the first great ecumenical meeting - addressed the opening service in the Nieuwe Kerk, which was spruced up for Princess Juliana's investiture as Queen of The Netherlands on Sept. 6. He movingly recalled "the preparatory stages" at Jerusalem, Madras, Stockholm, Lausanne, Oxford, Edinburgh and Utrecht "which have brought us to this hour...
...Princess Elizabeth and Philip were enthusiastically received on a recent visit to: 1. Paris. 2. Montreal. 3. Washington. 4. Stockholm. 5. Moscow...
...Brent and his friends succeeded in mustering representatives of 127 church groups in Lausanne, Switzerland, "for the consideration of questions touching Faith and Order." Meanwhile another interdenominational group had met in Stockholm under the leadership of Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, Primate of Sweden, to discuss the social, economic and political ills that plague humanity. Both groups called their next meetings in the same year-1937. Then both conferences voted to set up a joint body, to be called the World Council of Churches...
...marrying commoners). The Kingdom of the Goths and the Wends has scarcely felt their defection. For 41 years the same comfortable King* has sat on Sweden's throne, the same scholarly Crown Prince stood patiently by. Last week, as half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach had an air of permanence-17-year-old Ajax and Meteor had performed the same job on the King's 80th...
...draped, cream-colored restaurant sat the judges: Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Paris painter of nudes and titles; the slick-haired Belgian impresario, Jean-Jacques Fortis; and, peering recklessly through enormous horn-rimmed glasses, Marilyn Buferd, Miss America of 1946. They were face to face with an international incident. The Stockholms-Tidningen had just demanded the elimination of platinum blonde Miss Sweden on two grounds: 1) she had once been elected Miss China in a Stockholm cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian. Rebutted Miss Sweden: "I was elected Miss China...