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When stocky, blue-eyed Sten Schroder was 24, he saw a real Viking ship in a museum in Bygdoy; from that moment Sten knew what course he must sail. Last year, when Sten was a 37-year-old lamp factory worker in Stockholm, he saw his chance. A big sports exposition was to be held in Stockholm's deer park and the committee wanted to build a gondola to take visitors round the lake. Sten went to the committee meeting, pleaded history's cause and sold them on the idea of a Viking craft instead. The committee granted...
...King Haakon and 30,000 of his subjects watched in silence, Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled a heroic granite statue of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt on a site overlooking Oslo Harbor. Then Mrs. Roosevelt thanked her hosts, Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, and was off to Stockholm for a little visit with Sweden's King Gustaf...
...singing teacher at Stockholm's Royal Opera School had little fault to find with the little tenor's singing; what annoyed her was the tenor's persistent wooing of her pet pupil, pretty, blonde Soprano Anna-Lisa Berg. Marriage, she told them sternly, would be the end of Anna-Lisa's promising operatic career. She was right. Young, golden-voiced Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Anna-Lisa were married. And while Jussi sang his way to the Metropolitan and world fame, Anna-Lisa set-to work to raise their family, instead of her voice...
That was 15 years ago. In the summer of 1948, the late Count Folke Bernadotte asked Jussi to sing at a P.ed Cross benefit opera performance in Stockholm. He also asked Anna-Lisa if she wouldn't like to sing again. Anna-Lisa thought it over: their three children, Anders, 12, Lars-Olof, 10, and Ann-Charlotte, 5, were all out of infancy; she decided to try to pick up her promise of a career. Jussi and Anna-Lisa sang La Boheme together at the benefit-so successfully that Stockholm's Royal
Niebuhr notes that the Detroit Conference in the Church & Economic Life (TIME, Feb. 27), which came out in favor of a middle way between socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, confirmed a consensus already established by Protestantism in its conferences at Stockholm (1922), Oxford (1937) and Amsterdam (1948). "This consensus of Protestant thought is the more remarkable," writes Niebuhr, "in that it closely approaches the main emphases in the social teachings of the Catholic encyclicals since Rerum Novarum [1891]. Whatever may be the differences in Catholic and Protestant social policy . . . the similarities are more striking than the differences...