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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This bushy-browed, energetic man of 56 does not look like the popular picture of the dour theologian-much less like a neo-Calvinist theologian. But among top prophets of neo-orthodoxy's contemporary "theology of crisis," Dr. Emil Brunner ranks second only to his fellow Swiss, Karl Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theological Awakening? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

LAKE SUCCESS, New York, November 4--United Nations sources said tonight that Soviet Russia, which once vigorously opposed Geneva and anything connected with the old League and Natless as a home for the U.N., was ready to ask that the Assembly consider the Swiss city among possible headquarters sites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Makes Move to Establish Headquarters Back in Europe as Franco Spain Vote Approaches | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

Prizewinner Knaths, 54, was apprenticed to a baker at 19. He used discarded box linings for drawing paper, contrived hundreds of escapes from the steaming bakery into a world of his own making. As an art student, Knaths learned a new escape trick: Pablo Picasso and Swiss fantasist Paul Klee taught him how to tear down what he saw and rebuild it to suit himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Show | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...Swiss manufacturer developed the Ipsophone, an amazing instrument which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Current Affair Test, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Most of the angels were shabby, tired and obviously unhappy-a sort of bespattered mudguard of the lower middle class. Their beliefs were probably best expressed by Joseph Jacob Greutmann, 57-year-old pastry cook, onetime hypnotist, who founded the first Swiss heaven. Says Greutmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swiss Heaven | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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