Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Universal Pictures, Inc. has paid $50,000 for the screen rights, plus another $25,000 when shooting starts. Last week French, German, Swiss, Swedish, Portuguese and other publishers were dickering energetically for translation rights. Bonheur was setting an earnings mark that no other French Canadian book had ever approached...
...Sigerist's announcement came as a surprise to fellow medicos. At 56, he will give up (in June) one of the world's pleasantest, most influential medical jobs, and retire to a quiet Swiss village. Sigerist thinks it is none too soon: his writing program, for which he has been preparing for the last 25 years, will take at least twelve years...
Born in Paris of Swiss parents, Henry Sigerist was brought to the U.S. and a Johns Hopkins professorship in 1931 by the late grand old man of medicine, William Henry Welch, first dean of Johns Hopkins' Medical School. To most U.S. physicians, Sigerist is best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings...
...last week Curtis announced that the magazine had hit its stride. Its new issue (March) was something to see, and the writing was no longer hey-look. It offered a huge (39-page) and handsome Mexican takeout, a cool appraisal of Atlantic City, an engaging Swiss essay, written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. Sales had bounced over 605,000, the biggest circulation a 50? magazine had ever reached in one year. Curtis was looking forward to the day when Holiday would even make money...
Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton (first husband, Prince Alexis Mdivani; second, Count Court Haugwitz-Revent-low; third, Cinemactor Gary Grant) was back at the marriage-license bureau with another prince. Sharing the Swiss vistas with her in St. Moritz: tall, blond Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, leading candidate...