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Although the Nazis would not allow him to plead because he was a Jew, Hays appeared in court and helped to defend the Bulgarian Communist, Georgy Dimitrov, in the Reichstag fire trial, and much later he spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business...
Married. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, 62, onetime (1934-40) president of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller (women's fashions); and Angel Kouyoumdjisky, sixtyish, pre-World War II Bulgarian banker; she for the third time (her first: Floyd Odium, president of Atlas Corp.), he for the second; in Manhattan...
...Belgrade's Tashmajdan Stadium, in a tournament that was tougher on the officials than on the players, Russia's women's basketball team overpowered the Bulgarian women 65-46, won the European championship for the fourth year in a row. The referees called 63 fouls, ducked a hail of gravel chucked by indignant spectators, and were seriously disconcerted by the buxom Russians, who wore no brassieres under their uniforms...
...current Margutta Who's Who would include Sculptor Pericle Fazzini (TIME, March 10, 1952), who holds court in his ground-floor studio; Bulgarian-born Assen Peikov, a society portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
...intermezzi and preludes with which the program abounded hardly does it justice. Yet only the context was at fault, not the performance; Mr. Berman set a very fast tempo, the rhythmic impulse was subtle yet vital, and the poignancy never degenerated into sentimentality. Bartok's Two Dances n Bulgarian Rhythem, short work momentarily dazzling and fascinating, represented the contemporary period...