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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GATEWAY TO SHANGRI-LA | 1/29/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...military training poll postponed until tomorrow and the work of organizing in other colleges. In addition, it carries feature articles on aspects of defense by Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government. Edgar Mowrer, Chicago Daily News correspondent. Alan Gottlieb '42, former president of the Student Union, and Hans Undset '43, recently arrived refugee from Norway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFENSE GROUP STARTS PUBLICATION OF NEWSPAPER, SCHEDULES MEETING | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

From Norway comes Hans Undset, son of the Pulitzer Prize novelist, Sigrid Undset. Educated in Europe young Undset has only just arrived to take his place beside a Lowell and a Cabot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sons of Many Noted Americans Are Included Among Yardlings Who Registered Yesterday | 9/21/1940 | See Source »

...Undset was formerly a student at the University of Oslo, but at the time of the German invasion he drove an ambulance in the Norwegian army for a short while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDSET, NOBEL PRIZEWINNER'S SON, MAY ENROLL AT HARVARD | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

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