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...Sean Fedak. Coast Guard's freshman lightweight coach. said his team had improved, but apparently not enough. "We came close, but not close enough. We had the opportunities but we didn't capitalize on them." Fedak called the Harvard light team "a gutsy crew and a strong...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lightweights Garner Top Spots; Heavies Falter, Finish Second | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Duel. For Prima Donna Sari Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress, divorced wife of Playwright Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Guardsman), to Baron Frederick Vilarnyi, Hungarian Minister at Bucharest. When he sued for divorce Playwright Molnar accused Actress Fedak of relations with 42 other men. She replied in kind with a list of 142 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father, who almost escaped notice last week when Defendant Sari Fedak swept into court, clad in a black gown tight as snakeskin, looking perhaps half her 43 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: National Jest | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

That question seemed unnecessary. Sari Fedak was divorced (1925) from Hungary's most successful playwright, smug Ferenc Molnar, after he had accused her of intimacy with 42 gentlemen, and she had replied in kind with a list of 142 ladies. The sensation, at the time, was international, if not cosmic. Yet the Court asked last week: "Have you a hus-band?" Sari Fedak (shrugging a black, snaky shoulder): "Thank God, no!" The Court: "Have you any physical defects?" Sari Fedak (relaxing in her chair, replying in a sultry tone): "Certainly not-unless in my brain." Ah, reflected the auditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: National Jest | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

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