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With a reputation extending beyond his native land, Novelist Tibor Dery, ailing and aged at 64. is far and away the most famed writer in Hungary today. In his best-known book, The Unfound Phrase, Dery expounded his own political philosophy in the fictional terms of a wealthy Budapest lawyer who turned to Communism as his nation's only hope. Too incendiary for publication in the days of the prewar Horthy fascist dictatorship, it was circulated widely in manuscript before going to press ten years later...
...dangerous and insane." Klemperer spent his life savings to hire a 70-piece orchestra and Carnegie Hall to prove that he was not. Though the concert went well, for years he was unable to get a regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left him eccentric. The first time he conducted at the opera house he wore high leather boots, took them off in the middle of the performance. During rehearsal, he became...
Remote & Austere. He quit Budapest in 1950. Emaciated, half-paralyzed, speaking with a slur, Klemperer kept hunting for occasional conducting jobs. In 1951, in Canada, he fell again and broke his left thigh bone. Hobbling about on crutches, he still had the will to conduct but not the strength to stand up while doing it. Sitting on the podium before orchestras, he showed his old relentless temperament. One day, while conducting Don Giovanni in Cologne, he was so moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood...
...defeats in City Council elections, then a 31 vote plurality on the third try, 14 years on the Council... this year he was elected with 82.5 per cent in primary vote. With his unspent campaign money, Russell hired a 27-piece gypsy orchestra and threw a "Night in Budapest:" for 650 people...
...impressive chiefly for mass rather than quality. Of the 38 different rockets displayed, all were short-range with the possible exception of one single-stage, 70-ft. monster that looked like an overgrown German V2. The big new T-54 tanks had already been seen in action in Budapest, and the only noteworthy artillery pieces were two huge cannon (12-16 in. bore) presumably capable of firing nuclear shells. "We saw nothing that worries us," said one Western military attaché. "It's what we haven't seen that does...