Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until next morning that Manager Vodicka realized that Zdenek Marek, his tall center forward, had deserted team and country, the ninth member of his group to do so in four months. Two had stayed behind in Switzerland, and six more had vanished mysteriously after they took a plane in Paris, ostensibly to fly to London. What made matters sticky for Vodicka was that he had unwittingly helped Marek to desert. Usually he kept the team's passports locked up, but when Marek asked for his "to change some foreign currency," Vodicka handed the passport over. Moaned Vodicka: "This will...
...Years or Forever. But when Hitler's armies invaded The Netherlands, Mengelberg welcomed them with open arms. At war's end he fled to Switzerland, and the Dutch Centrale Ereraad voor de Kunst (Central Council of Honor for the Arts) forbade him to conduct ever again in Holland, later reduced his banishment to six years-well knowing that for Mengelberg, then 76, six years might be forever...
...right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...
...path of two-way trade with Europe, which ECA hopes to smooth, was still rocky. When Cleveland's Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than...
...shake Holmes off by demanding "impossible" prices for Holmes stories-only to find that the publisher gladly paid up. Doyle became rich on Holmes-and sick to death of him. When doctors told him that his young wife would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier that year he had written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence was one of the bitterest, most ironic episodes in his life: as he sat beside his stricken wife, enraged readers showered him with savage letters, and mourned the dead...