Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Theodor Plievier, 63, bestselling German author, renowned for his three World War II novels describing the fighting on the Russian front (Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin); of a heart attack; in Avegno, Switzerland. Plievier turned to Communism shortly after World War I, wrote several anti-war novels in the early 19305, fled to Russia to become an official propagandist when the Nazis came to power. Disillusioned with the Soviet Union (although not with theoretical Communism), Plievier took refuge in U.S.-occupied Bavaria...
...snacht, Switzerland...
...Charlie Chaplin has remained a founding partner in United Artists for 35 years, refusing as much as $6,000,000 for his interest in the company. Last week the self-exiled comedian, now living in Switzerland, liquidated the last of his visible American interests by selling his 25% of United Artists for an undisclosed...
Last week, as the tournament got under way in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, the Vs had more than the Russians between them and the championship. Finland, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S. had also entered teams. Each of them had 36 games to go, but the Canadians began by making it look easy. In Dortmund's Westphalenhalle Arena they trounced the U.S., 12-1. Outside, in the cold German winter, a red-bereted corporal of the Canadian occupation army blasted on a bugle while his buddies jeered: "Yankees go home, and learn to play...
Wilhelm Backhaus, 70, returned to the U.S. (he was born in Germany and lives in Switzerland) to give his second postwar all-Beethoven piano recital for a full and cheering house...