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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Adenauers, Erhards and Schumachers, your "good" people, they are the dangerous ones; the ones who are fronting for Thor and getting another chance for the ever-resurgent militarists of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Paul van Zeeland, Belgium; Lester Pearson, Canada; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; Dirk U. Stikker, The Netherlands; Jose Caeiro da Matta, Portugal; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Thor Thors, Iceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Views of the World | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

This successful blend of faith and finance, according to Myra Kiimalehto, was at first administered jointly by Thor, her slight, pince-nezed Swedish immigrant husband, and ex-Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of lore derived from the ancient esoteric Rosicrucian cult which dates back beyond the isth Century. In 1928, the Lewis-Kiimalehto brand of Rosicrucianism found in San Jose a happy combination of favorable weather and favorable authorities. There Lewis incorporated it as a nonprofit organization, and settled down to be "Imperator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Happy Life | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedigrees & Principles | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...home in Oregon's big timber country where she grew up, perky little Elsa Berner used to hear tall tales about a fellow named Paul Bunyan. She never understood why her schoolteachers talked a lot about Hercules and Thor, but never mentioned Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Fun Than Arithmetic | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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