Word: german-swiss
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...watch were many. The surprise is that so few did. In Paris, the principal radio station bulletined news of the Pope's death 67 hours before it happened, then made it self look more foolish the following day with the breathless announcement, "He's still alive!"The German-Swiss tabloid Blick -which, appropriately, is printed on pale yellow paper -passed the word two days early and was promptly at tacked in 12,000 copies of a handbill drawn up by citizens of Lucerne...
...Zeppelin, Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...
...Vatican last week announced July 15 as the date for the next long-expected secret consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. The only elevation known in advance was that of Mgr. Idlefonso Schuster, abbot of the Basilica of St. Paul's, Rome, a German-Swiss who will be made Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, a position once held by Pius...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...
...German shore of German-Swiss Lake Constance. Not to be confused with Frederikshavn, Denmark...