Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest stamp collectors are as secretive as Swiss bankers, and the extent of their collections frequently comes to light only after their death. For such men, stamps are as much of a financial investment as a relaxation...
...stamps are easily transported from country to country, and, if need be, can be quickly disposed of. Wall Street Broker Alfred Caspary's 50,000 stamps were sold beginning in 1955 for $2,900,000, and represented a quarter of the value of his estate. The collection of Swiss Tobacco Magnate Maurice Burrus, from which the rare 2? Hawaiian came, will probably realize $8,000,000 when it is all disposed of. Burrus paid $15,000 for the Hawaiian in 1921; last week's sale thus represented a 275% increase in value...
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, by C. G. Jung. In this posthumous autobiography, the late great Swiss psychologist traces his life in dreams, offering some startling insights into a mind that at the end was in flight from its century, from science and particularly from Freud...
...evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval, and receives a constant stream of visitors, ranging from old pastoral friends to a delegation of Swiss prohibitionists. "I told them," says Barth, sipping vermouth, "that it was a good thing they existed, but theirs was not the main problem in the world...
...Swiss cheese on rye (no mustard) and one banana are his customary lunch, but world-famed Architect Walter Gropius settled for champagne and caviar when some 40 colleagues turned out to surprise him on his 80th birthday. Best surprise of all to the prolific former chairman of Harvard's department of architecture was the appearance of an old crony, Finnish Architect Hugo Alvar Aalto, 65. When the two men were through toasting each other, Gropius opened a letter notifying him of an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "Isn't that nice?" he said...