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...sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greece...
...Hungarian-born Vasarely, 57, shares only one thing in common with Burri-he is also a onetime medical student. But, as a grand poppa of op art, he and a group to which his son Yvaral belongs have pioneered the complete opposite of a concern for surface texture with high-key colors and razor-cut patterns that baffle the eye. Significantly in terms of São Paulo, two of his son's Paris-based Groupe are South Americans with whom Vasarely has great popularity...
...sequel to his History of the Cold War, Hungarian-born Historian John Lukacs, 41, poses a paradox worth pondering by the advocates of European unity. A good European, argues Lukacs, must first be a good nationalist; before he can become meaningfully committed to an integrated Europe, he must be emotionally committed to a single European nation. Lukacs shares De Gaulle's suspicion of a federated Europe, advocating instead the Gaullist vision of a loosely linked Europe des patries. Far from urging a return to truculent nationalisms, Lukacs hopefully champions the more temperate patriotism of the Briton, the slowly developed...
Married. Arthur Koestler, 59, Hungarian-born author, once a Communist, later a supreme critic (Darkness at Noon); and Cynthia Koestler, 37, his South African-born secretary, who changed her name from Paterson to Koestler in a legal action a year ago in London; he for the third time, she for the second; by a city clerk in Manhattan...
HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...