Word: wiegand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squash coach Jack Barnaby said last night, "We've had our head chopped off." First the team lost its captain and possible number one or two man, Roger Wiegand, to an attack of mononucleosis diagnosed last week. Then Hampy Howell, who played number two on last year's team and was a prime candidate for the top spot this winter, came down with the same disease...
...Wiegand and Howell were the only returning players out of last year's top four and the squash team will be hard put to replace them. Nevertheless, the loss does not totally deprive the Crimson of potential number one men: it only reduces their number from six to four...
Last War. It was Von Wiegand's last war, but far from the end of his career. In 1945, he flashed a perceptive alarm to the West about the "Red Russian tidal flood . . . The war has loosened upon Europe the most powerful imperialistic force since Napoleon-totalitarian, Communist Soviet Russia." Eyesight failing, he roved restlessly about his old international haunts, a derring-do journalist, lost in the geopolitical maze of another era. In 1959, from New Delhi, he sent up another rocket: "Soviet Russia and Red China reportedly have agreed in Peiping to divide the globe north...
Last April, fiddle-footed as ever, he flew out of the Sahara, chasing down one more story from the Far East. But the hunt was over. Stricken with pneumonia in Tokyo, he was rushed by plane to a hospital in Zurich, his summer home. There, Karl von Wiegand died last week at 86, the last of his breed, a legend somewhat larger than life...
Died. Karl Henry von Wiegand, 86, globe-trotting prototype of the old-fashioned foreign correspondent; of pneumonia; in Zurich (see PRESS...