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Behind the scenes, the Churchill exhibition had set off a seething debate among museum directors. The issues: Is Churchill's artwork worthy of a place in first-rank museums? Or should museums show it as a part of history? Or to increase public interest in art? Or to encourage Sunday painters? By week's end the controversy had reached a point at which some museum directors were barely speaking to old friends...
...country of its size, Hungary has an extraordinary record for providing the U.S. with first-rank scientist immigrants. Leo Szilard (key atom-bomb physicist), Edward Teller ("Father of the H-bomb") and the late great Mathematician John von Neumann (an Atomic Energy commissioner) were all Hungarian-born. So when refugees began streaming out of rebellious Hungary last year, the National Academy of Sciences set up an office at Camp Kilmer, N.J. and sent an expeditionary force to Austria to help educated Hungarians find jobs...
...picked Architect Francisco Prestes Maia to run against Adhemar, and backed him with high-voltage fanaticism. The choice was a mistake; at political rallies Prestes Maia's lifeless voice and dazed expression chilled audiences into apathy. For his part, Adhemar pulled a tactical switch. Long known as a first-rank name-caller, he left the mudslinging to Quadros. The final returns proved Adhemar's magic greater...
...when the Depression shrank the fur business; Tenor Tucker turned to singing when the outbreak of World War II shrank the silk supply. Both advanced quickly in the war-hobbled Metropolitan, both quickly became reliable, stock-in-trade singers. In recent years they have blossomed into spectacular first-rank performers. Tucker is now the best tenor in the business, and Warren grand opera's top baritone...
20TH CENTURY-FOX movies will appear on TV. For $2,000,000 plus a percentage of all income over $75,000 per picture, Fox will lease 52 films, many first-rank (Les Miserables, Ox-Bow Incident, How Green Was My Valley), to National Telefilm Associates for showing in U.S. and Canada...