Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...
...novices among them, Frank Harper's Skiing for the Millions (Longmans Green; $3) is valuable equipment. The German-born son of an American newspaperman, Author Harper (White Maneuvers, Military Ski Manual) learned his skiing in Switzerland, where 20% of the people own skis. His latest book flavors ski instruction with a garrulous skimeister's anecdotes, opinions, sudden poetic bursts. With infectious enthusiasm he inveighs against lazy American ski habits (downhill runs only, uphill rides in chair lifts, hot buttered rum in large quantity). Two Harperisms...
...Last Chance (International refugees escape into Switzerland; TIME...
Whether Berlin's great conductor Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler was or was not a Nazi hardly seemed worth arguing. Goring gave him the highest Government job held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler...
...Last Chance (International refugees escape into Switzerland; TIME...