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Died. Ernest Bloch, 78, Swiss-born composer (Schelomo, America), who captured in his orchestral and chamber music the youthful ardor of his adopted land, the U.S., and the indomitable spirit of his Jewish heritage, combined the tried music of the old masters with the experimental techniques of the moderns in a rich synthesis, discouraged cliques by living in isolation on the rocky coast of Oregon; of cancer; in Portland...
Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...
Died. Eric Blom, 70, scholarly, Swiss-born music critic for the London Observer, who spent eight years (1946-54) editing the 8,350,000-word, nine-volume fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians; in London...
...winner: Daniel Bovet, 50, Swiss-born but now a naturalized Italian. One of the research stars of Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità, he is a scientist's scientist who has spent a lifetime in quiet laboratories. Though his discoveries have been the basis of countless medical products-sulfa drugs, antihistamines, muscle relaxants-he has never taken out a patent in his own name or made a penny from the commercial exploitation of his findings...
...struck Russians who at the turn of the century flocked to Munich to study painting, one of the best was Alexei Georgievich Jawlensky. In the 1920s he ranked with the more famous Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the late U.S.-born Lyonel Feininger and Swiss-born Paul Klee (TIME, Sept. 17) as a coequal in their "Blue Four" exhibits. Then he was all but forgotten...