Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They went abroad together for the first time in the fall of 1939 as the German Wehrmacht was slicing up Poland. Shelley worked in Sweden while her husband photographed the misbegotten Russo-Finnish war. She was in Portugal on the "balcony of Europe" when France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
Gabriela Mistral, handsome, 56-year-old Chilean poetess (Los Sonetos de la Muerte), found herself still the lioness of social Stockholm a fortnight after receiving the Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 26) from towering King Gustaf. Poetess Mistral found Sweden's social democracy "a century ahead of everything else," but prepared to move on to another, gentler climate. Last a resident of Brazil's fair-&-warmer Petropolis, she would now head for California's Los Angeles, hopes to find a home, an office, and settle down...
King Gustav of Sweden, in shape after a fortnight's illness, at 87 was playing his old game: tennis (indoors...
General Electric's quiet-voiced Irving Langmuir said that secrecy would not save the U.S. He pointed out that England and Russia had already announced atomic programs, that France, Switzerland and Sweden also have the required technical skills. Overemphasis on secrecy, he added, had backfired even before Hiroshima. The military's pointed refusal last June to let U.S. and British atomic scientists attend a scientific meeting in Moscow should have tipped the Russians off. Langmuir may credit the Russians with more perspicacity than they had. There are signs that news of the bomb surprised them...
Said Gabriela, still thinking of California: "But, am I going to Sweden...