Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford Trucks & Flour. A bulking bear of a man, 66-year-old "Dutti" Duttweiler entered the business world 50 years ago as an apprentice in the Zurich wholesale grocery firm of Pfister and Sigg. Thirteen years later the company became Pfister & Duttweiler. But Dutti's main career of cutting prices-and conventional corners -began in 1925. Just back from several years as a coffee-and sugar-plantation owner in Brazil, Duttweiler was shocked to discover that a planter netted less for his efforts in raising coffee than the grocer who merely handed it over the counter. To remedy that...
...decided he had little use for great wealth or good living. So he gave away his Migros stores to his family of 120,000 registered customers, one share apiece, turning the whole business into a cooperative. For himself, he kept $250,000. He also turned his estate outside Zurich into an amusement park, moved into a four-room house where he and his wife live without servants, and from which he drives to work in a mouse-sized Fiat two-seater. Duttweiler stayed on as president of the Migros cooperative at $9,000 a year, but three years ago gave...
Prime Minister Menzies tried to calm the public outcry over her departure by announcing that Mme. Petrov made no appeal for sanctuary to Australian officials at the airport. Besides, said he, if she wanted to stay, she would get another chance when the plane (bound for Zurich) touched down at Darwin. Menzies was as good as his word. At Darwin, Australian police boarded the plane, disarmed two Russian couriers who were traveling with her-they had .32 revolvers in shoulder holsters-and took Evdokia aside for a 45-minute private talk with a government official. This time...
...exhibit was assembled for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, mostly from the Kunsthaus in Zurich. After New York, the 64-picture Fuseli show will go to Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore. Most of the pictures have an extravagant, stagelike quality; men and women gesture and posture elaborately, as in The Witches Show Macbeth Banquo's Ghost. Macbeth, a heroic, anatomically detailed nude, holds an outstretched hand against the apparition conjured up by the three hags. There are also a few amorous scenes, such as The Kiss, in which the lovers' bodies are passionately contorted, suggestive...
...Oddly enough, U.S. critics were, and still are, inclined to temper their praise with a touch of condescension. They note her obvious limitations of draftsmanship and range, and only then admit her ability to evoke atmosphere and create lively scenes. But the European reaction has been full-out. A Zurich critic speaks of her "magic spontaneity . . . completely unsentimental, and as untouched as nature herself ... a phenomenon of our times." Paris' Arts votes "thanks to Grandma Moses for the happiness she shows us." Vienna-born Otto ' Kallir flatly insists that Grandma is "one of the very great painters...