Word: undset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creation of Marian and Hanna Kister, the Roj (Beehive) Publishers was the biggest fiction publishing house in pre-Nazi Poland. Started after World War I with a cheap edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes a year. In Manhattan last week the Beehive Publishers (transliterated to Roy for the U.S. trade) were again as busy as bees. In between was a story of terror and struggle...
...Sigrid Undset, 61-year-old Nobel Prizewinner from Norway, declared that the thing about the U.S. that astonished her most was its women's clubs. "It would never occur to a European woman," said she, "to have lunch with a lot of other women, and not a male in sight. I must say I prefer mixed company...
...eleven European laureates who have arrived in the U.S. in recent years are: Maurice Maeterlinck, Sigrid Undset, Thomas Mann (literature); Sir Norman Angell (peace); Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye (chemistry); Otto Meyerhof, Otto Loewi (physiology and medicine); Albert Einstein, James Franck, Victor Franz Hess, Enrico Fermi (physics...
...South Africa. We have already admitted many, and we will gain by taking as many more as we have room for. Not often since the Mayflower has the scum of a European wave of the future been so rich in human talent and accomplishment. With names like Einstein, Werfel, Undset, Romains, Maurois, and Paderewski, the steerage list of many a tramp steamer begins like a European Roll of Honor. Beyond doubt, these newcomers average as high as if not higher than their hosts in education and intelligence. And economically as well as culturally the exiles can contribute to the American...
Fair, blue-eyed Sonia Maria Noel Stokowski, 19, daughter of fair, blue-eyed Maestro Leopold Stokowski and his exwife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, after a venIn Oslo, the Quisling Government ordered burned all books by Nobel Prize Novelist Sigrid Undset, who is now in the U. S. Grounds: her works (chronicling Norway's rich medieval past) were not national...