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...Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer, 71, head (since 1946) of the Methodist Church in Germany, an organizer of the Council of Evangelical Churches of Germany, chairman of a 1945 Methodist congress in Frankfurt which passed resolutions of "guilt and repentance" for Germany's war guilt; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...shrinkable, waterproof hat for men developed by the M. & B. Headwear Co. A letter from Irving Joel of that company tells what happened next: "The magazine first appeared on the newsstands, to the best of my knowledge, on Thursday. The following Monday we had a cablegram from Zurich, Switzerland. And since that time we have received requests for information from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, The Hague, Holland, Hong Kong, China and Canada. In addition to this foreign response, we have received well over 200 inquiries from both individuals and stores in this country, and they're still coming...
...company liked to dance in Zurich because the traditionally critical audience gave it its best reception; in Paris because "it was Paris," and Florence because the stage was so good. They suffered more than the usual number of sprains, and used up more than $10,000 worth of toe slippers on rough stages elsewhere. In Barcelona they found the life expectancy of a pair of slippers was 20 minutes...
...Swiss, trusting in their mountains, their tough little army, and their luck, have not been in a war for 137 years, have determinedly stayed out of Europe's attempt to organize a joint defense. Yet a bold, bad professor, one Marcel Beck of the University of Zurich, dares question the wisdom of Swiss isolationism. The National Day Committee, a well-meaning group which organizes patriotic rallies, invited Professor Beck to speak on the 661st anniversary celebration of Swiss independence. His speech was a shocker...
...Switzerland. Only trouble: they were never spoken. The day before Beck was to make his speech, an advance copy reached the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (circ. 70,000), Switzerland's most influential newspaper. Shocked to the core of their neutral souls, the editors alerted the National Day Committee and Zurich's Board of Education. Result: Beck delivered a pallid speech from which his blast at neutrality had carefully been blue-penciled...