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...Kurt Seligmann, Swiss-born painter -for a show of abstract oils with an accent of surrealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Experimentalists' Year | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Arthur Honegger, eminent, Swiss-born modernist composer, who has been touring Germany under Nazi auspices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fate at the Door | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...crucial problem was finding a feasible process for producing DDT in the large quantities needed. It was solved last year by a Swiss-born chemist, Dr. Oskar Frey, of the Cincinnati Chemical Works. Cincinnati Chemical still produces 60% of the DDT supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...medical hero replaces another this week as head of the National Cancer Institute: Virginia-born Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer, 54, succeeds Swiss-born Dr. Carl Voegtlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spencer for Voegtlin | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Radio Vichy in mid-May launched a campaign to woo French-Americans in New England back "to ancient tradition." For Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born brains of NBC's French section, this was a lulu. Said Auberjonois one night in his short-wave news broadcast to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Propaganda Front | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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