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When the Mountain Fell, a tale of utter simplicity and symbolic depth by the late Swiss Novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, reminded some readers and writers of the value of perfected style. So did The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster, England's dean of novelists...
Actor-Producer Orson Welles's troubles with his seven-year-old cinema Citizen Kane (which William Randolph Hearst refused to advertise in his papers) were still following him. Filed in a Manhattan court by Biographer Ferdinand Lundberg: a suit for damages (amount unspecified), charging that Wonder Boy Welles had copped the idea from Biographer Lundberg's Imperial Hearst...
Argentina's shy, black-eyed Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay is often referred to as "the world's greatest living physiologist" (TIME, May 5). Medical researchers are also enthusiastic about a gifted pair of biochemists at St. Louis' Washington University: shy Dr. Carl Ferdinand Cori and his redhaired, vivacious wife Gerty. Few scientists were surprised last week when Stockholm announced that Houssay and Cori & Cori had been jointly awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in medicine...
When Wilhelm Franz Josef Karl of Austria was a child, Johahn Strauss was in his heaven and all was well with the world. But Wilhelm's youth was soon shadowed by death. First, Cousin Rudolf (the Crown Prince) committed suicide at Mayerling. Then Cousin Franz-Ferdinand (the Heir Apparent) was killed at Sarajevo. Suddenly everyone became terribly solemn and said that young Archduke Wilhelm, the descendant of Holy Roman Emperors, would soon occupy a throne...
...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...