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About three times a week, Hungarian-born Sandor Szabo heaves his 225-lb. frame into a Los Angeles wrestling ring and there, under the eyes of a ring and TV crowd, grunts and grimaces for half an hour. From Hungary to California, he has been specializing in step-over toe holds, ankle-drop takedowns, flying mares and other bone crushers for some 30 years. But last week 42-year-old Wrestler Szabo was wistfully eying a new career as a popular singer...
...tired old man, plagued by debt and long riddled with cancer, moved one day in June 1885 into a small woodland cottage at Mt. McGregor, N.Y. Many a biographer has recorded the last days of Ulysses S. Grant at that cottage, but few have known them as well as Hungarian-born Historian Stefan Lorant (Lincoln-A Picture Story of His Life-Harper; $6). Last week Lorant presented the source of his knowledge to West Point-a packet of manuscripts that he had bought from Grant's descendants. Among the manuscripts were nine tragic little notes, penciled by West Pointer...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Cello & Piano (Janos Starker & Abba Bogin; Period, 2 LPs). All five of the master's efforts for cello and piano. The cello is played with fire, tenderness and unerring accuracy by Hungarian-born Janos Starker of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His partner is a talented young (27) American pianist...
Adverse weather last night threatened to wash out this afternoon's helicopter arrival of Hungarian-born Magda Gabor. Captain Charles Johnson, Air Force Pilot, stated last night he could not fly in rain or without a ceiling of at least 3000 feet...
...from the U.S.; they were not told why. Some suspect it was because they belonged to large professional societies that have some Communist members. Others think that their birth in a country now dominated by Russia was the sole reason. A typical case is that of Professor Michael Polanyi, Hungarian-born chemist and philosopher long resident in Britain. He was kept from teaching at the University of Chicago, although he had been for 20 years one of the most active anti-Communists in Europe...