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...District of Columbia bar. He had always wanted to be a lawyer, but he indulged himself by taking Foreign Service exams simply because "I was curious to see if I could pass them." He did-and in April 1921, he was offered a place in the U.S. consulate at Zurich. He talked it over with his bride of one month, a former Red Cross worker named Mildred Claire Taylor, and accepted. Says Murphy: "We decided to try it for a year...
...Gustav Jung (TIME, Feb. 14, 1955). Mostly professed introverts, they look disapprovingly on the modern world's passion for extraversion, "togetherness" and "other-directedness." But last week, 45 years after Founder Jung broke with Sigmund Freud, the Jungian school held its first international congress. The locale, inevitably, was Zurich, Jung's lifetime headquarters. There, 120 of the faithful gathered in the university's auditoriums for technical sessions on such topics as "The Problem of Dictatorship as Represented in Herman Melville's Moby Dick," and "Practical Problems of Transference and Counter-Transference...
...four in a neighborhood carnival; she still recalls being hauled at night out of the coal bin where she slept and made to warble sentimental favorites for her drunken father. Having mastered the techniques of standing on her head and walking a tightrope, Lenya enrolled at the Stadttheater in Zurich, worked up a dance act and moved on to Berlin. There she played the subway circuit, usually in Shakespeare. The year was inflation-ridden 1923; her weekly salary was 3 billion marks ($5). After she married Weill and became a star in Germany, U.S. Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson wrote...
...letter of intent from a combine of Durum A.G. (Zurich) and Texas Oil Magnate John W. Mecom for the exploration, exploitation and transportation of oil both on dry land and underwater...
...Lieut. Obenauf went to the Lake Zurich, ILL. High School, did not go to college...