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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...
...Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...
...congress was held in Osio, Norway and the 1932 one in Zurich, Switzerland...
Frater Felix Fabri, a Dominican, was born in Zurich about 1441, of a well-to-do family named Schmidt. He was a jolly friar, and he "dared, among great things and true, grave things and holy, to mingle things silly, improbable, and comical" with such gusto that a reader may sometimes think he has strayed into a company bound for Canterbury...
...other speakers were Catherine Baner, lecturer and lobbyist on housing, and Siegfried Giedion, professor of Architecture at Zurich. Miss Bauer stated that study of old masterpieces would prevent modern students from falling into modern cliches, while Giedion stressed that a "study of the past will prevent students from losing contact with reality...