Word: bretscher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spotless & Frugal. N.Z.Z.'s stocky, pink-cheeked Editor Willy Bretscher, 57, who has worked on the paper for 37 years and been its boss for more than 20, is proudest of his daily's fight against Naziism. When a small band of Swiss Nazis began to sing Hitler's praises...
...Editor Bretscher in 1933 dispassionately analyzed the Nazis' destructive aims. N.Z.Z. was finally banned in Germany altogether when it printed an article saying it was common knowledge that the Reichstag fire was started by Göring, not by the Communists. (The German government continued to buy 200 copies of the paper a day for its own information...
...paper's handsome, five-story building, where a new $770,000 press was being installed last week, Bretscher presides over a staff of 375 employees. Its spotless composing room is lined with plants that each compositor cares for himself. Swiss frugality is in evidence all over its building. Says a sign on the elevator: "Young persons can well afford to walk up at least two floors." While the paper has 250 Swiss stockholders, it is run virtually as a public trust: no stockholder may hold more than 3% of the stock. The paper's international readership attracts advertisers...
Wesleyan, with a favorable wind forced the play throughout the first period. Crimson fullbacks Hugh Sergeant and John Hadik broke up the Cardinal's aggressive thrusts for the first five minutes, but the forward line of Ken Spencer, Pete Deacon and Bob Bretscher broke through at the 6:25 mark. The goal went to Spencer, his third of the year...
...PAUL G. BRETSCHER New Orleans...