Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FELL (221 pp.)-Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, translated by Sarah Fisher Scoff-Pantheon...
...Author. A French edition of When the Mountain Fell, published in the U.S. in 1936, was the first selection of the French Book-of-the-Month Club. This is its first publication in English. Its author, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, was born in the small town of Cully on Lake Geneva. He lived and wrote in Paris from 1902 to 1914. The eight novels, four books of verse and two collections of short stories he wrote in those years pleased only a small group of admirers. Ramuz returned to his native canton of Vaud. shook off Parisian literary influences and identified...
...executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures. Matty Fox, whose pudgy fingers dabble in many side investments that have little to do with movies, got into balloon-blowing by way of the "everlasting match." The match, which could be struck 600 times, had been invented in 1931 by Dr. Ferdinand Ringer, a Viennese chemist. It was bought up for $400,000-and filed away-by the late match king, Ivar Kreuger. Subsequently, Dr. Ringer came to the U.S., and when a federal court broke up the remnants of Kreuger's old cartel in 1946, the match was again available...
Investigation of the missing royal jewels of the late Princess Hermine, widow of Germany's last Kaiser, was dropped as an internal German affair by the U.S. Army's C.I.D. yesterday as they released Fraulein Vera Herbst, reputed consort of Hermine's son, Prince Ferdinand...
Berlin was getting ready to watch a big operation last week. Dr. Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch, the greatest surgeon in Germany, was about to undergo a denazification trial...