Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacationing in sporty St. Moritz, Switzerland, with the international set: Yugoslavia's ex-King Peter and handsome wife Alexandra. They were enjoying a little change from Monaco. Besides, they had had to get out because they could not get their visas renewed...
...Stockholm, Hans Gerschweiler (Switzerland) won out over 18-year-old Dick Button (New Jersey) for the men's world figure-skating crown and set off a howl in Sweden's press. Stockholm's Tid-ningen said: "The best skater lost. . . ."; Dagens Nyheter added: "The judge lacked experience...
Threadbare Survivors. The newborn child (Stephen Joyce) that Joyce wrote of is now 15, and enrolled at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Baptized a Catholic without his fond grandfather's knowledge, Stephen went to school during the war at Glion, Switzerland. In Zurich last week his father, Giorgio Joyce, and his grandmother, Nora (Joyce's widow), were living in threadbare bleakness, victims of wartime exchange restrictions which still allowed them to receive only ?75 a year from the Joyce estate in London, to which all royalties on the books are paid...
...added attraction in this year's Carnival will be the participation of a special Swiss team sent by the government of Switzerland for the Hanover meet. The Alpine delegation, led by tamed ski are Karl Meliter, will compete in all events, but will not be included in the official scoring...
Lipsky will be presenting information gathered in part at the recent Switzerland meeting of the Congress, which elects the Executive of the Jewish Agency...