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...winter-long rash of amateur performances of Mozart's new piano quartets by "this and that princess." Now the two quartets are listed among Mozart's finest works and are given pristine performances by Polish Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski and the violinist, violist and cellist of the Budapest String Quartet...
...victory over Russia in basketball; at the World University games in Budapest. Sparked by Princeton All-America Bill Bradley, who scored 20 points, and cheered on by a wildly partisan Hungarian crowd, the Americans rolled up a 42-25 half-time lead, coasted to their second straight win (first score: 81-38) over an outclassed Russian team. In other events at the games, Texas' Randy Matson uncorked a toss of 66 ft. 7⅝ in. to win the shotput; and Florida's John Pennel won the pole vault, jumping...
...British called him "Desperate Frankie"), then commander of the northern armies in France. He was exiled to Macedonia. An egotistical but forceful general, D'Esperey promptly got the 350,000-man force out of its lice-ridden trenches. He struck boldly at the heart of Germany through Belgrade, Budapest and Vienna...
...dress, look rather a lot like last year's Givenchys and Chanels. Her evening gowns at times are even languidly reminiscent of the 1930s, when, as the daughter of a successful Hungarian couturier ("I was born on the cutting-room table"), she founded her establishment in the Budapest of Ferenc Molnar and Béla Bartók. Still, the fact that after postwar years of obscurity, she thrives today and retails her wares to the likes of Jovanka Tito, the Marshal's wife, illustrates a new wrinkle in dialectical materialism. Fashion, long considered frivolous and bourgeois...
...Continent's most dashing and beautiful women. "My clients prefer the styles of Chanel and Givenchy," coos the grey-haired grande dame of haute couture. But the city is not Paris, the river not the Seine, and madame is not Coco. She is Klara Rothschild of Budapest, oracle of fashion throughout Communist Europe, recipient of the Order of Labor in the People's Republic of Hungary, and at a state-paid salary of $20,000 a year, one of János Kadar's most generously valued national assets...