Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BAUMANN Olten, Switzerland...
Those whom the war did not kill, it maimed. Kirchner retired to a sanitarium in Switzerland, later committed suicide. George Grosz emerged from a military hospital for the insane with the horrors of trench warfare, which he painted with the richness of Rubens, burned into his memory. In the postwar years of angry anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics. (Today Grosz, an American citizen, lives on Long Island, N.Y., paints landscapes, nudes, and insect parables that "express the emptiness of man.") Oskar Kokoschka was shot and bayoneted through the chest...
Returning to Switzerland, dead broke but ahum with ideas, Leopold was unable to persuade strait-laced local authorities to set him up in a municipal casino, and was soon seeking out more adventurous governments. Last January, learning that arms were being smuggled from Switzerland to Arab terrorists in Algeria, Geneva cops pounced on four men about to board a plane for Tripoli, with suitcases loaded with dynamite. One of the four was enterprising Marcel Leopold...
Understandably reluctant to let tax collectors get at his fortune (estimated at $500 million), the late Aga Khan may have outsmarted himself and deprived his heirs of millions. While much of the half-billion was stored in such tax havens as Lichtenstein, Tangier and Switzerland, his heirs, according to a Paris gossipist, are hunting for the balance of about $100 million in safety deposit vaults of banks around the world, where the Aga often made deposits under assumed names, and in many investments-stocks, plantations, mines, real estate-that he made in the names of trusted go-betweens whose identities...
Married. Lilli Palmer, 43, German-born actress of stage (Bell, Book & Candle) and screen (Body and Soul, Notorious Gentleman); and Carlos Thompson, 34, Argentine-bred cinemactor (Flame and the Flesh); she for the second time (her first: Actor Rex Harrison), he for the first; in Küsnacht, Switzerland...