Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, a ten-round decision (after flooring his opponent five times), over France's Jean Wanes; at Zurich...
Died. Mrs. James Joyce (Nora Barnacle), 65, longtime confidante and literary midwife to her famed author husband; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland, where Joyce died ten years ago. A practical woman, she helped him settle down and get his work done, sighed after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" After he reached success and died, she long endured a genteel poverty, unwilling to live in England, unable to get more than a fraction of his royalties out of the country...
Professor Emil Staiger of the University of Zurich will deliver a lecture tonight in German entitled "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und die symbolistische Poesie." The lecture, under the auspices of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will be given in Room 11, Sever Hall...
...Asia and U.S. inflation brought a flight from the dollar. By last week, the price of gold in free markets had soared to $42 in Paris, Zurich and Tangier, to $56 in Hong Kong, to $59 in Bombay. London's Economist estimated that in 1950 $720 million in gold (more than 85% of world production) had gone either into hiding or commercial use. Actually, much of the "commercial" gold (for jewelry, etc.) had gone to hoarders. The International Monetary Fund permits South Africa, world's biggest gold producer, to sell part of its production at a premium...
Died. Robert Smythe Hichens, 85, author of The Paradine Case, 50-odd other novels; in Zurich, Switzerland. A turn-of-the-century favorite (The Garden of Allah, 1904, sold nearly a million copies), Novelist Hichens turned out fiction that earned him a comfortable income long after he had lost the bestselling touch...