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...historic meeting in 1910 of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh, elements of Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christianity began to meet and work in parallel. One stream, known as "Life and Work" and concerned with the social aspects of the churches, met in Geneva in 1920, in Stockholm in 1925, and at Oxford in 1937. The second, known as "Faith and Order" and dealing with theology and liturgy, met in Geneva in 1920, in Lausanne in 1927, and Edinburgh in 1937. The two streams flowed together in Utrecht in 1938 and agreed to unite in the World Council of Churches...
...personal fortune of more than $1 billion by dealing in everything from diet pills to antiaircraft guns, donated nearly $50 million to libraries and laboratories around the world, but never quite stilled the doubts aroused by his suspected dealings with the Nazis in World War II; of cancer; in Stockholm. A consummate salesman, Wenner-Gren worked in obscure jobs in Sweden and the U.S. till he was nearly 40, then proceeded to put together an industrial empire based on Electrolux vacuum cleaners and Servel refrigerators, hobnobbed with dictators, Prime Ministers and Presidents throughout the Western world till the outbreak...
...native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia's Communist Federation of Writers but never a party member, Andric (pronounced Ahndreach) celebrated his Nobel award with a slivovitz toast to Sweden, hoped despite his frail health to make the trip to Stockholm next month to accept the $48,300 prize...
This and other findings by Von Bėkėsy have given ear specialists new ways to distinguish between different forms of human deafness, which may be important in deciding treatment. After he left Budapest, Von Bėkėsy spent two years at Stockholm's Caroline Institute, which awarded the prize. Then he moved to the U.S., now works in Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory where, still experimenting, he has built a model of the cochlea big enough to hold...
...Bekesy will officially receive his award from King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden during the formal ceremonies at the Stockholm Concert Hall...