Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
...Switzerland's Fritz Feierabend is a prideful man who, at 45, can look back on a notable record in bobsledding: four world titles (the first in 1939) and five Olympic medals. Last week at the World Bobsled championships on northern Italy's evergreen-banked Cortina run, Feierabend's pride was doubly injured. In the two-man events, the Italians had placed one-two with new sleds of their own design (featuring knee-action front runners). It was beginning to look as if the famed Feierabend firm, which has produced Europe's best bobsleds for decades...
Whirlybird Rescue. Hardest hit of all Europe, however, were the valleys of Switzerland and Austria, where only a month ago hotelkeepers, hoping for good ski weather, had despaired of the unseasonable warmth. There, the choking Staublawinen (dust avalanches), which literally drown their victims in a rush of dry, powdery snow, and the hurtling Rutschlawinen (slide avalanches), which bury their victims under sliding tons of packed snow, ice and boulders, wrought fearful havoc...
Apples on the Desk. In World War II, Fanfani escaped Mussolini's draft by fleeing to Switzerland, where (together with Italian President Luigi Einaudi) he taught Italian students in internment camps. Ambitious, aggressive and a disciplinarian (he says he believes in authority, efficiency, and the Sermon on the Mount), Fanfani after the war, took on a succession of ministries under Premier Alcide de Gasperi. As Minister of Labor, he developed the "Fanfani house" program which so far has produced more than 7,700 government-built workers' homes; he put 200,000 of Italy's many unemployed...
...Women's World Figure Skating Champion, Tenley leaves for Oslo next month to defend her title. She'll also give exhibitions in Copenhagon, Switzerland, and Paris before she returns for the Nationals in Los Angeles in late March...