Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there was damaging material in the files against...
...this point, rather than go through with the hearing, the State Department decided to grant Dr. Nathan his passport, asserting nonetheless that "the issuance of passports is a discretionary executive function." For Otto Nathan, getting ready for his trip to Switzerland, the outcome was clear and encouraging. "The State Department's action in issuing a passport to me," he said, "vindicates the fundamental right of every American citizen to travel...
...first man to run a four-minute mile, last week named to the Queen's Honors List (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; and Moyra Elver Jacobsson, 26, professional portrait painter, youngest daughter of Swedish Economist Per Jacobsson, and niece of Sir Archibald Nye, British High Commissioner to Canada; in Basel, Switzerland...
...home in Erlenbach, Switzerland, German-born Author Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature, paused on the eve of his 80th birthday to look back on his first novel, Buddenbrooks, penned 54 years ago. The book was, submitted Mann modestly, "the finest success of my life." He recalled that it had sprung not from literary ambition but from a wish to amuse a few intimates. Said Mann: "Late in life, when a writer realizes that he is producing what is called 'art,' he tends to break off his contacts with society and turn into...
Died. Daniel George van Beuningen, 78, retired Dutch businessman, famed as the owner of one of the great private art collections of Europe; of an embolism; in Arlesheim, Switzerland. To prove that the Last Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial...