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...Basel, Switzerland
...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...