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...Switzerland, where the estimated cost of living is $120 a month, including tuition, universities are mainly occupied with giving summer language courses in the quatro-lingual state. The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchatel teach in French. The canton schools of St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Chur offer German language courses. In southern Switzerland at Bellinzona, the school gives Italian instruction...
Antiquing is one of the favorite sports of the nation's rich. Just about the biggest sportsman of all is Wilmington's Henry F. du Pont. Since 1928, Du Pont has spent about $20 million to fill his 185-room Delaware mansion, "Winterthur," with nothing but the best in U.S. antiques...
Last week Du Pont opened Winterthur as a public museum. Guests found over a hundred of its rooms made into authentic re-creations of American living quarters from 1640 to 1840. Winterthur's indoor bowling alley had become an 18th Century shop lane gleaming with china and pewterware. The badminton court was now a cobbled indoor square with fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 (Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Victor Desarzens conducting; Concert Hall Society, 2 sides LP). The composer, 15, a bit too full of youthful sentimentality when he wrote his first symphony, nevertheless gave it remarkable melodic moments and color. Performance and recording: good...
...held by a musician, that of Nazi Staatsrat (State Councilor) of Prussia. When he fled Germany to Switzerland last February, the Zurich Municipal Council canceled two sold-out concerts he was sched uled to lead. Three days later, Furtwängler conducted in the Swiss industrial town of Winterthur, and the fire department had to turn hoses on 4,000 workers demon strating outside the hall. Since then, Furtwängler has been writing a symphony...