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Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute until the Nazis drove him out ("Stay at home and occupy yourself by writing a book," they told him), in 1940 finally made his way to Cornell. There, perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke, he pioneered in high polymer research, taught Cornellmen their chemistry, and each year managed to make them...
Died. Albert Basserman, 84, whose possession of the celebrated Iffland Ring* marked him as the foremost actor of German-speaking Europe; of a heart attack, soon after his plane from the U.S. landed in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1939, after the Nazis failed to persuade him to divorce his non-Aryan wife, Actress Else Schiff, Basserman at 72 fled with her to Switzerland and the U.S., started life all over again in Hollywood, acted with memorable brilliance in such movies as Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, The Moon and Sixpence, Rhapsody in Blue...
Died. Sir Stafford ("Old Austerity") Cripps, Britain's vegetarian, Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (until October 1950) under former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; after long illness, three days before his 63rd birthday; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...canny Swiss, advised by Avalanche Expert André Roch, plan to take advantage of this previous British reconnaissance. They will also attack the problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
German, Italian, and Swiss universities are all good with the exception of Zurich and possibly Geneva, which suffer the fate of their French counterparts. Seminars of all sorts, too numerous to mention, function during the summer. Information regarding these, as well as the other phases of travel and study abroad, are available at P.B.H., in the office of the Student Council, or through the N.S.A. at their New Work address. For how not to travel, chapter I of Ludwig Bemelman's "I Love You, I Love You, I Love You," is required reading