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...operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked him to write a musical. The Whirl of the World (1913) was an immediate success, and at 26 he was already established as a full-time composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1951 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...talk about food in the U.S., by an Austrian woman who had married a G.I. She spoke lyrically of the cosmopolitan variety of the U.S. menu ("Goulash, Wiener Schnitzel, stuffed peppers, Linzer tart . . ."), and made an announcement that might start a major revolution in Vienna: "I frequently make Apfelstrudel, but I don't have to knead the dough myself-I buy it all ready. Or better still, I buy the whole Apfelstrudel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Voice of America: What It Tells the World | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...looked like a magnificent mulatsdg.* In Budapest's carnival-bright streets, workers danced the csdrdds and the rumba, while youngsters jitterbugged. In parks, tents had been set up for the distribution of goulash and other delicacies; beer flowed as fast as it once did at Tammany picnics. Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had ordered weeks of countrywide fun and frolic to get the voters into the proper mood for Hungary's national elections. As in all such well-run Communist affairs, there was no opposition; the communist "People's Independence Front" presented a single list of candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Matyas & His Little Lamb | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Equally sincerely, two days later, the government announced the results, which surprised nobody: 96.5% of the voters had cast their ballot for the Communist regime. The People's Front bowed to the duly expressed will of the majority. The Reds folded their goulash tents and sent their brass bands home. The mulatsdg was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Matyas & His Little Lamb | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Village of Our Own | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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