Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some years ago, when the department was still young, picnickers found scattered human bones in the bushes near a beach on the South Shore. Police accumulated all the evidence they could find and sent it to Dr. Moritz, then head of the department. The bones were that of a woman. Tied around her neck was a thick rope...
Hollywood got hold of the story and, with a few theatrical changes, filmed it under the title, "Mystery Street." Recognizing the appeal of this kind of picture, Bruce Bennet, who played a prototype of Dr. Moritz in the film, reportedly got screen and television rights to 325 other case histories from Dr. Moritz last month and plans to do a series based on these accounts...
...names of the damaged towns sounded like an Almanack de Gotha of winter sports. Zermatt, Arosa and St. Moritz were cut off. Houses were buried on the outskirts of Andermatt. Some 500 British and 70 American tourists suffered a sybaritic exile, stranded in the luxury hotels of Davos. In central Switzerland the 4,100-ft. high village of Vals was crushed by a torrent of snow, rock and snapped timber. A small hotel at Oberalpsee was completely buried...
Died. Saly Mayer, 68, Swiss lace manufacturer credited with saving some 200,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime...
Other winners are: Betty I. Bandeen, James T. Bonnen 1G, John A. Bradshaw '41 4G, A. George Davis 3G, Gifford B. Doxsee 2G, Joseph Finkelstein 2G, Norton M. Hintz 3G, Eloise Knapp, Clement Moritz 4G, Nancy Nimitz, Clifton J. Phillips 1G, and Bertram L. Woodruff...