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...admiral on a commodore's income, Gerhardt had a ready reply: he had received a small inheritance from his German mother, and he played the horses, the lottery and the stock market with remarkable success. Last week Gerhardt's luck ran out. The commodore and his Swiss-born wife Ruth were picked up by South African police and accused of spying for the Soviet Union...
...feel that one doesn't deserve it at all." This problem was one that Walser (1878-1956) never had to face. Three of his novels were published during his lifetime, and his work won the admiration of such contemporaries as Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse. But the Swiss-born Walser received almost no public recognition or support. He spent the last 27 years of his life in mental institutions, and his writings, all in German, seemed permanently consigned to the limbo of the unread...
...music on the other side, by two recent Swiss-born composers, Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) and Frank Martin (1890-1974), makes this disk welcome. Bloch's oeuvre contains about a dozen works of avowedly Jewish flavor, the most famous being the Schelomo rhapsody for cello and orchestra (1915). The last of the Jewish works was a set of five Pieces Hebraiques (1951), for viola and piano, three of which Bloch orchestrated the next year under the title Suite Hebraique. The Thompson disk is the only current recording with the revised scoring. Though not from Bloch's top drawer, the work...
...BORN. To Ursula Andress, 44, Swiss-born film star, and Harry Hamlin, 28, film and television actor (Movie Movie, Studs Lonigan): a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Said Andress: "Better late than never...
...Dear Lord I Pray, Help the Cook Another Day." So reads the prayer put in the kitchen of the London mansion occupied by the Vatican's Ambassador to Britain, Swiss-born Archbishop Bruno Heim, 68. The supplicant chef frequently turns out to be Heim himself, who likes to slip an apron over his cassock to whip up sauces or stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic...