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AMONG earnest car shoppers in many cities and towns throughout the U.S. last week were TIME correspondents, doing first-hand research on the battle of wits between salesman and buyer for this week's cover story on Ford Dealer Jim Moran (see BUSINESS). Researcher Piri Halasz roamed through showrooms in New York City and New Jersey, brought along an uncle who was once a car salesman himself. Correspondent Bill Shelton borrowed Correspondent Marvin Zim's Volkswagen as trade-in bait, made the rounds of Chicago car dealers, found Jim Moran's salesroom harder to escape from without...
...Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something less than fumaroles, the women make no secret of their affections. Head Business Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd burns up more than 20 cigarettes a day, prefers her smoke unfiltered. Researcher Piri Halasz, who went through hundreds of reports, pamphlets, company statements and books for Jamieson, has been a smoker since her freshman year at Manhattan's Barnard College: "I tried hard to start in high school, but I didn't like the taste." She now smokes at parties and at work...
Even when the evidence seems to refute such arguments, Chapman pursues the Dreyfus case like a detective, tries it like a judge, and breathes life into it like a good novelist. If his book sometimes lacks the courtroom dramatics of Captain Dreyfus by Hungarian Journalist Nicholas Halasz (TIME, Aug. 1), it is because Chapman is busy with a more telling drama on a larger stage-the kind of France in which a Dreyfus case could happen...
...City Opera's first general director was Hungarian-born Laszlo Halasz, who spent eight years getting it established, while sidestepping a series of attacks brought on by his toplofty manner. The last arose after his baton flew out of his hand and struck a player. Able Conductor Halasz was sacked in 1951 and replaced by Austrian-born Joseph Rosenstock who staged a world premiere (Copland's The Tender Land) that failed, a New York premiere (Walton's Troilus and Cressida) that succeeded, two gloomy but interesting U.S. stage premieres (Von Einem's The Trial and Bartok...
During those years and since, thousands of articles and hundreds of books have been written about the Dreyfus Affair. Now comes Hungarian Refugee Journalist Nicholas Halasz to prove that the story has lost none of its excitement when coolly researched and laid out in skillful narrative 60 years later...