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Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...
Died. John von Neumann, 53, Hungarian-born mathematician, member since 1955 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; of cancer; in Washington, B.C. (see SCIENCE...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans...
Miracles these days are not as widespread as they used to be. But for Catholic-and, to a much lesser degree, for Protestant and Jew-miracles are a fact of faith. How much of a fact and how essential to faith, Hungarian-born Roman-Catholic Author Zsolt Aradi recalls in a new volume on the old subject, The Book of Miracles (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $5). Protestants and Jews may believe in miracles as they see fit; Catholics must believe in their existence, but it is not heretical for them to doubt any given miracle except the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin...
Died. Jean Schwartz, 78, Hungarian-born oldtime vaudeville pianist and songwriter, who composed Chinatown, My Chinatown (with longtime Partner William Jerome), Al Jolson's Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, and Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...