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History's greatest brain drain occurred during the 1930s, when thousands of intellectuals fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in other countries. What Germany lost and other nations gained was re-emphasized last week when the latest Nobel prizes in science went to two refugees from Hitler: Dennis Gabor, who won the 1971 prize in physics for his invention of holography, and Gerhard Herzberg, who earned the laurels in chemistry for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy...
...Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied by Phil Harris, could be poured on waffles. His inamorata, Duchess, is furnished with a Hungarian purr that could only have issued from the vocal cords of Eva Gabor. They and the rest of the players sing a number of numbers-all of them delightful, and one of them (Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat) absolutely true. The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that by the fadeout...
Married. George Sanders, 64, the suavest of Hollywood villains (Death of a Scoundrel); and Magda Gabor, fiftyish, sometime actress and sister of Zsa Zsa, who divorced Sanders 16 years ago; he for the fourth time, she for the fifth: in a civil ceremony in Indio, Calif. Said Mama Jolie Gabor: "He just wanted to get back in the family. He missed me. I always liked George, but when a son-in-law comes back, I really like...
...What happens to him as a TV personality in the U.S. will properly belong to Part III, if he ever chooses to write it. Since he is evidently a man of charm, energy and perhaps genius, almost anything could happen. Maybe he will end up marrying Zsa Zsa Gabor or run for Governor of New York. On the track record, both the lady and the state might do worse...
Still, he once led an orchestra, fully clothed and playing When the Saints Go Marching In, on a late-night wade through the swimming pool during a soirée at Southampton, L.I. Now he may party with the likes of Gina Lollobrigida, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Stavros Niarchos (former husband of Ford's daughter Charlotte), and Spanish Prince Carlos-Hugo de Bourbon, whom Ford reportedly calls Jack Daniels. "Frank Sinatra sang at my 21st birthday party," says Ford, "so I've known him for a long time. But he wasn't well known then?he was just a singer...