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...much power does the intellectual have in 20th century society? In the Roman Catholic Commonweal, Hungarian-born Thomas Molnar,* an assistant professor in the humanities at the San Francisco College for Women, gives a depressing answer: the power of the intellectual has never been less. Indeed, says Molnar, "Intellectuals have been dismissed by society at the very time they thought their services most needed...
Died. Willy Pogany, 72, Hungarian-born painter, illustrator and architectural designer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With little formal training, Pogany became one of the most versatile artists of his day. Among his creations: murals for Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater; scenes, sets and costumes for the Metropolitan Opera's Cog d'Or; three 18-ft. stained-glass windows in Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Cemetery...
...Hungarian-born Schoffer painted dolls in a Paris factory before World War II, fought with a Maquis hill band during the German occupation. "Under the shock of war," he says, "I evolved into a different sort of person. I began meeting intellectuals; I began sculpting new ideas; I began to hold conferences...
This novel burns a hole in the Iron Curtain with a moral blowtorch. A white-hot account of the Red tyranny in Hungary, The Ninety and Nine is fired less by skilled prose than searing passion, less by action than ideas. Hungarian-born Author Kovács, a World War II underground fighter and onetime secretary-general of Hungary's National Peasant Party, now works for the Free Europe Committee in New York. Lacking the theoretical brilliance of a Koestler, he nonetheless brings to his grade B Darkness at Noon a fingertip knowledge of the Communist mind in action...
Divorced. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 25, eye-filling, Hungarian-born cinemasiren (The Assassin) and sometime playmate of Britain's fun-loving Marquess of Milford-Haven; by William Wordsworth, 42, London publicity agent, great-great-grandson of the English poet; after three years of marriage, no children; in London...