Word: budapests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest String Quartet played three entirely different types of quartets in Sanders Theater yesterday afternoon, and when the program was over, it played Schubert's Quartet Movement in C minor as an encore. This concert was the nearest thing to musical perfection I have ever heard...
...Budapest String Quartet returns for the first time this term to Sanders Theater at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Sponsored by the Pierian Sodality and the Harvard and Radcliffe Orchestras, the concert will include Mozart's G Major Quartet, K 387; Hindemith's Quartet Op. 22, number three; Brahms A Minor Quartet Op. 51, number...
...defendant's right. Every day as the session opened, the officer stopped before the judges' bench and formally reported that the accused was present in the court. Last week, Lieutenant of Prison Guards Imre Szipzr, 32, warden of the Marko Street House of Detention in Budapest, was himself in the prisoner's dock before a Budapest criminal court. He was under charges, together with six subordinates, of having accepted bribes from relatives of prisoners under his charge...
Szipzr would not deny his prisoners the advantages which he himself enjoyed. For fat fees he would provide bored, wealthy prisoners with women visitors, who frequently stayed overnight in the cells. There were nights when the corridors of the Marko Street House of Detention sounded just like one of Budapest's livelier nightspots. Drinks were sold by Szipzr and his assistants, and only the gypsy band was missing...
...Rajk had specifically refused to appeal for clemency, but against his will his lawyer had sent an appeal to the Council of People's Courts. Rajk need not have worried: the council, not renowned for its clemency, rejected the appeal. Next day Rajk was hanged, presumably in Budapest...