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Born in 1484, Zwingli studied at the universities of Basel and Vienna before his ordination. In an age of semiliterate priests, he managed to combine his duties as a country pastor at Glarus with genuine scholarship: he had a library of 350 volumes, studied the Scriptures in Greek and Hebrew, corresponded with the great Renaissance humanist Erasmus...
...newest way to go abroad. In three years charter flights have grown 200%, now account for more than one in every ten passengers who fly the North Atlantic. This year charter flights will attract such diverse groups as Manhattan's Cliff Dwellers Deviltry and Diversion Society, the New Glarus (Wis.) Yodlers, the Flatbush Bridge Club, members of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Neighborhood Cleaners Association (New York City). For most charter travelers, the flight overseas will be an aisle-roaming, convivial carnival in the sky. Says Lois Raebeck, a member of Manhattan's Lexington Democratic...
...rowboats. Their plainly dressed parents walked quietly about their new home. "Oh, my! It's too good for us," said bespectacled Alec Dodd of Toledo, Ohio. In the Tropical Room, their eyes lit up when they saw the bar. "Look at these low sinks!" exclaimed Balthazar Trumpi of Glarus, Switzerland. "This is perfect for the nursery. In the sinks the children can play at washing dishes, and join in the community activity." Soon the ballroom had been converted to a schoolroom, the basement bar into a workshop. Within the next week 62 more Brothers had arrived and settled into...
...sons came back, married Swiss girls, toiled thriftily, and went right on preserving the customs of Canton Glarus which they had never seen. So did their sons and daughters. By now, for all practical purposes, New Glarus is completely Americanized. Its people have more automobiles, iceboxes, radios, pianos, lipsticks and nylons than most U.S. farmers. They are deep in politics (many were diehard supporters of Senator Bob La Follette see Political Notes). Their sons and daughters go to U.S. colleges. Even the big, costumed pageant had a U.S. setting: it was held on the high-school football field...
Soldiers from New Glarus who visited Switzerland during World War II came home with some startling news: nobody seemed to yodel there any more. They also told their elders that the Swiss had been astonished by their talk; in 1946 New Glarus was still using phrases almost as dated as Elizabethan English...