Word: basel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basel, Switzerland
...Moneymaker. The son of a back-country Swiss doctor, Ditisheim became a Basel banker specializing in international finance. He made his first killing in 1931 arranging a $100 million debt payment by Russia to Germany. Six years later he helped Nationalist China use its silver hoard to float a $10 million war loan. He has always enjoyed spending money as much as making it. Coming to the U.S. in 1941 "to retire," he first lived in California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying...
...both banks of the Seine, and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, currently showing a Sam Francis painting among its new acquisitions, calls him "perhaps the best-known young American painter now working in Europe." Last week Sam Francis racked up another triumph. Museum Director Arnold Rudlinger of Basel's Kunsthalle, acting for a group of Swiss art collectors, plunked down 1,000,000 French francs ($2,857) for Francis' latest abstract oil, a huge, 10 ft.-by-14 ft. canvas of swirling black forms, beneath which glow splotches of hot reds and yellows...
Amid a clutter of flasks and tubes, beakers and retorts in the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Researcher Dr. Albert Hoffman was doing a routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow, he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception of time and space, and the short bicycle ride...
...Latin text book and worked all the way through it immediately "because it was so interesting." He went on to get his Ph.D. at the University of Berlin, taught there for a year, and then, at the age of 27, was named Professor of Philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland--the same chair that Nietzsche had occupied. From there he returned to Germany and a professorship at the University of Kiel, and then--at the amazingly young age of 34--he was named full Professor of Philology back at the University of Berlin. Two years later he was elected...