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...peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...showiest party of all, an army of some 60 technicians was called in to transform the ballroom at Claridge's into a moonlit garden so that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success. At another party, given at the Monkey Club, an exclusive shelter and society finishing school for young ladies, a silver fountain gushed red wine all evening. "We wanted to have something original...
After one rare evening that ended in a Brahms string sextet played by Casals, with Violinists Menuhin and Arpad Gerescz. Violists Ernst Wallfisch and Karen Tuttle and Cellist Madeline Foley, the Queen left the audience and walked up onto the stage. Menuhin greeted her with a kiss on the cheek, then led her backstage to congratulate the shy Casals and the other members of the sextet...
...Arpad Toth, a journalist and music critic...
...Arpad Szakasits was given the presidency of Hungary as his reward for keeping the Social Democratic Party on the same Red line down which Tildy had marched the Smallholders. A month ago Arpad obligingly merged his Social Democrats with the Communists into a new Hungarian Workers Party. Over on Szabadsag Ter, the bettors could open a new set of books...