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Bull's-Eye Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar...
...prison code that Novelist Arthur Koestler described in Darkness at Noon, for tapping out the alphabet, echoed through the corridors of a Communist prison in Budapest. From their tapped-out conversations, top Hungarian Journalist Paul Ignotus and a young girl named Florence Matay, who could not see one another, fell in love. Last week they were honeymooning in Italy. For their story, see FOREIGN NEWS, After the Cinema...
Leftists who get caught up in the Communist confession mills have a fair idea of what to expect these days. As long ago as 1940, Budapest-born Arthur Koestler in his novel Darkness at Noon explained something of the techniques used. Thus, when onetime Hungarian Cultural Attaché Paul Ignotus, an active Social Democrat who had read his Koestler, returned to Budapest from Britain to see his ailing father in 1949, he knew the danger he risked. Picked up by the AVO security police a few days after his father's funeral, he was not altogether surprised to find...
...stung into an electrifying attack on the Stalinists. "Why, Comrade Mijal," asked Gomulka, "do you all the time insist on including references to the Soviet Union supremacy? We had the example of Rakosi and Gero always using such phrases, and it ended with Soviet tanks at the head of Budapest streets." Confusion fell among the Stalinists when 'one of their number, Franciszek Mazur, a recognized Kremlin agent who flits regularly between Moscow and Warsaw, suddenly switched his support to Gomulka, indicating that the Kremlin did not favor a frontal attack on Gomulka at this moment...
...Hungarians, who has not yet been formally admitted, will enter the Class of '61 on a scholarship raised this year by the Hungarian Freedom Council. He is Julius Varallyay, formerly a civil engineering student at the University of Budapest, and now a resident of Cambridge. He will probably be admitted as a freshman on advanced placement living in the Yard...