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...wife, not I the consort of Victoria de los Angeles." ¶Belgrade-born Dragan Debeljevic, 39, abandoned plans for a career as an art and musical historian to guide the career of his wife, Swiss-born Soprano Lisa Delia Casa. While he was studying at the University of Zurich he heard Delia Casa sing, married her not long after. By his testimony, his wife was not an ambitious girl ("she was not born for this profession") and had to be worried by him into a star contract with the Vienna State Opera and later with the Met. Debeljevic attends every...
...Gstaad (Aug. 8-18). Founded three years ago by longtime Summer Resident Yehudi Menuhin, it now attracts front-rank musicians who are hand-picked by Yehudi. get no fee. In the 14th century Protestant Church of Saanen. the wealthy chalet set will this year hear Yehudi play with the Zurich Chamber Music Orchestra and his sister Hepzibah in a series devoted to works of Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn and Mozart...
...Amanullah Khan, 68, King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, who led his country into the Third Afghan War in 1919, won independence from Great Britain, but ran into so much resistance when he tried to westernize Afghanistan that he was forced to abdicate; after a long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...Amsterdam, Geneva, and Zurich, where the exchanges handle a
proportionately greater volume of U.S. stocks than other European
exchanges, prices first fluttered, but have begun rapid recoveries. In
Paris, prices are down, but the reasons have little to do with Wall
Street. The confidence of investors was badly shaken by the resignation
of Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (TIME. Jan. 25), has been further
weakened by the slow progress in ending the Algerian crisis.
...orchestra of 1,285, a chorus of 2,645 singing the opening hymn These Things Shall Be). Harrumphed Switzerland's Otto Mayer, chancellor of the International Olympic Committee: "All this hoopla has little to do with the Olympic spirit, and I've wired the U.S. accordingly." Shrilled Zurich's Sport: "Assigning the Games to Squaw Valley was a big mistake. The committee fell for the big bluff of smart American businessmen...