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...none of the reports have ever been confirmed. Last week newspaper readers on both sides of the Atlantic were presented with the most elaborately packaged claim of all. In a six-part series that included photographs purportedly taken of Bormann last October and excerpts from supposedly secret documents, Hungarian-born U.S. Author Ladislas Farago contended that the missing murderer was alive and living as a prosperous businessman in Latin America...
Authenticity of their most recent writings aside, there are some striking similarities between the two authors. Like Irving, Hungarian-born Farago (who came to the U.S. in 1937 after a journalistic career in Europe and Ethiopia) is noted for his expansiveness and charm. Says one close acquaintance: "He is flamboyant, talks a lot, drops the names of important people he has just met as though they are his friends, and is renowned as a raconteur...
...drawl. Namath's lazy inflections still suggest that his forebears fought under the tattered banners of Beauregard and Breckinridge. But as every true fan knows, Namath was born and raised in the Pennsylvania steel town of Beaver Falls (pop. 14,404), the youngest of four sons of a Hungarian-born steel puddler. Joe is sincere about his deep family ties. In his autobiography, / Can't Wait Until Tomorrow...'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day (written in collaboration with Writer-Sportscaster Dick Schaap), Namath proudly observes: "When I was growing up, my mother was a maid...
Died. Dr. Georg von Bekesy, 73, Hungarian-born physicist and winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in medicine for his research on the human ear; of cancer; in Honolulu. Von Bekesy was a scientist employed by a Budapest telephone laboratory when he began his research into the physiological aspects of hearing during the '20s. Over the next four decades his equipment and techniques-he once glued tiny mirrors onto an eardrum to observe its response to varied sounds-helped in the diagnosis of hearing disorders...
...13th century panels in Siena whose painted demons have been scratched to obliteration by pious fingernails; the Mona Lisa has been stoned. Last week, in one of the most vicious examples of vandalism to date, Michelangelo's Vatican Pieta was almost ritually assaulted by a 33-year-old Hungarian-born Australian geologist who cried: "I am Jesus Christ...