Word: moritze
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...were asked to find the author himself. The American Express office was holding letters for Wilder, but didn't know where he was. Correspondent Fred Klein got in touch with the American Embassy, Paris publishers and others, finally received word that Wilder could probably be found at Saint-Moritz...
After calling five hotels at Saint-Moritz, Klein located the writer at one of them. Wilder promised to keep him posted on his address as he traveled...
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...