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...clergyman and grandson of a well-known Swiss satiric poet, Düurrenmatt turned to drama after studying philosophy at the universities of Bern and Zurich. He settled in Neuchatel "because I wanted to be alone, far away from friends who would constantly call on me, hampering my work...
...genuinely hurt and startled that the audience stood and cheered." Says Director Josef von Baky: "It was all there at 17. The tremendous intensity and ambition, the radiance and the look of sentimental innocence, the specific Schell personality." At 20, Maria was hired by the State Theater of Bern as its leading lady. Salary: $250 a month. Repertory: Shakespeare, Shaw, Goethe, Ibsen...
...Dubois, a Swiss, felt deeply for France, another secret-service man in France's own Deuxième Bureau in Paris was differently affected by his own government's handling of Algerian policy. The Deuxième Bureau man tipped off the Egyptian embassy in Bern that its telephone lines were being tapped by Dubois' outfit. Furthermore, the information thus obtained, including the support the Algerians were getting from Egypt's Nasser, was leaking back to Paris...
...square where the life-size statue of General Josef Bern stands, honoring the Polish officer who fought for Hungary's freedom in 1848, 200,000 people crowded around a latter-day poet named Peter Veres, silent mover in the Hungarian Writers' Union. He stood at the foot of the statue and read out a manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around...
High Water-Wood, in the Hulton col lection, belongs to Klee's final works. It was painted in 1938, after Nazi interference had driven him back to Bern. Klee was dying of a rare disease which produced progressive drying of his body tis sues, and he knew it. Painted on newspaper with thick paint and broad strokes, High Water-Wood is one of the most private of Klee's works. Areas of green, yellow and blue are laid out with perfect harmony...