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Hollow Laughter. In The Night of Time, Author Fü;p-Miller, an encyclopedic, Hungarian-born historian who teaches sociology at Manhattan's Hunter College, produced a soberly symbolic essay on the fatuity of war. Wider in scope, The Silver Bacchanal reveals man as an Absurd Animal, torn between hope and despair, ideal love and an insatiable lust. Fü;p-Miller's instrument of dissection is irony, e.g., the army's bureaucratic campaign against disease-carrying houseflies, in which the city is divided into sectors manned by bumbling brigades of swatters. But the laughter...
...Born. To Jayne Mansfield, 27, sometime cinemaspirant, who reported that she was "so thrilled I'd like to have 500 more babies," and Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 30, knot-muscled, Hungarian-born Mr. Universe of 1956: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Divorced. Claude Rains, 70, veteran British-born actor; by Agi Jambor, 51, his fifth wife, Hungarian-born concert pianist; after nine months of marriage; in West Chester...
...happier days, when he was earning as much as $200,000 a year and had sold his shows to NBC for $1,000,000, he invested $50,000 in a small Manhattan chemical firm, the Fragrance Process Co. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Neuwald, 64, a Hungarian-born chemist who used Barry's money to perfect a pellet to impregnate plastics with hundreds of different fragrances...
...Antal Dorati, 54, decided to call it quits after eleven years with the Minneapolis Symphony, plans to spend the next two or three years as a freelance conductor, mostly in Europe. A vigorous orchestra builder (he virtually remade the Dallas Symphony between 1945 and 1948), Hungarian-born Dorati took over the Minneapolis from Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1948, extended the orchestra's repertory and season, but now feels that he can push the orchestra no further. Says Dorati blandly: "An artist of my caliber-and I am one of the best-must always be building." Replacing Dorati in Minneapolis...