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...trial room, under the glare of movie cameras, the pale young woman told how, early in the fight, she had knocked out a Soviet tank with a hand grenade. At Domonkos hospital she and her ten codefendants, none of them over 30, had used the hospital Mimeograph machine to crank out a revolutionary newspaper called Truth. The editors were Gyula Obersovszky, onetime cultural editor of a provincial newspaper who had been expelled from the party for organizing a satirical cabaret show, and Jozsef Gali, ailing survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who had fallen into disgrace with the Communists after...
...Germany's Rolleiflex has a cheaper, smaller model. Available by midsummer, the Rolleiflex 4x4 with Xenar 3.5 lens has all the features of the regular Rolleiflex plus easier loading, and a faster knob to replace crank winding. Price...
...rich, Marx has a "Space Satellite Launcher" ($3) that propels the plastic satellite skyward by a hand-crank mechanism; Irwin Corp. a "Skeet Shoot" ($4) that throws targets into the air, for a rifle loaded with darts; and Carrom Industries, a boxing game ($6.95) in which players manipulate toy fighters until the knockout. Of the traditional dolls, stuffed animals, soldiers, and games, there are hundreds of new variations. Madame Alexander has a new doll, "Lissy" ($10 to $15.95), that walks, sits and kneels; the Bonomi Italian dolls ($17.98 to $24.98) feature straight Audrey Hepburn haircuts, come equipped with skating...
...nudnik is a bothersome, querulous crank...
...young artist a one-man show is the best way to become known. But this comes at a price: up to $500 for a fortnight's rent on the Left Bank, $750 or more on the right. In addition, the artist must usually crank out his own publicity, pay a critic (in cash or paintings) to write a catalogue preface, try to talk an aperitif manufacturer into serving free drinks. Even then the gallery pockets 20% to 33% of the sales...