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...just about a year ago that Sweden was first presented with the strange case of the Rev. Dick (not a nickname) A. V. Helander, 57, former professor of theology at Uppsala University. In October 1952, he was elected Lutheran Bishop of Strangnas, in eastern Sweden. This was unexceptionable enough; he was one of Sweden's most respected conservative theologians, head of Stockholm's College of Deacons since 1936, and author of many books. But a few weeks later, two of the defeated candidates for the bishopric made a strange charge; before the voting, they said, many anonymous letters...
Education: B.A. 1925, Uppsala University (literature, French, practical philosophy, economics). His doctorate thesis-Distribution of Economic Market Trends-at Stockholm University (1933) was abstruse, brilliant, and prefaced with a quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: " 'That's nothing to what I could say if I chose,' the Duchess replied in a pleased tone." Diligently learned English. French and German, and displayed his talents last week in a trilingual press conference. At college, friends tagged him "the perfect civil servant...
...have just sent your article, "Patton Talking," to a friend in Uppsala, Sweden, asking him to show it to the clergy there . . . The sacrilegious story . . . was pure fiction...
Sweden's clergy was piously thunderstruck to learn of the U.S. general's prayers. Said the Rev. Hans Ackerhielm, assistant pastor of Stockholm's fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...
Tall, strikingly handsome and always immaculately dressed, Professor Tiselius speaks 'English with about the same accent as a Minnesota Swede. Students at Uppsala affectionately call him "the film star professor." His official hobbies are sailing, modern art, music, literature. His unofficial hobby: making model aircraft with Per, his 14-year...