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...Hungarian-born Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (in English, St. George), professor of biochemistry, is a Nobel Prizewinner who is fascinated by muscles. "That a soft jelly should suddenly . . . change its shape and lift a thousand times its own weight . . ." he says, "is little short of miraculous." In the current Scientific American, Szent-Gyorgyi explains the latest discoveries about this miracle of muscle action...
Three years ago Hungarian-born Eugene Varga wrote a book which, although violently hostile towards America and Britain, held that there was no likelihood of a depression in the Western countries before 1955. About a year later, the Politburo realized what Varga was saying. He had not only contradicted Marx, but blasted the premises of Soviet foreign policy. Party henchmen went to work (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). He was dismissed from his job as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. He was told to recant. Instead, he pluckily announced: "I cannot...
...Born. To Joseph Pasternak, 47, Hungarian-born cinemusical producer (Three Smart Girls, Anchors Aweigh), and Dorothy Darrell Pasternak, 28: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Peter. Weight...
Ever since handsome young Hungarian-born Conductor Antal Dorati went to Dallas four years ago, he has labored to make his new countrymen conscious of one of his old: the late great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok. Season after season he pounded Bartok at Dallas-and Dallas music lovers had almost adopted Bartok as their own. Dorati would be leaving (to take Dimitri Mitropoulos' podium in Minneapolis next season-), but he had promised himself to do something that people would remember-and connect with the Dallas Symphony. He succeeded. On NBC's Orchestras of the Nation broadcast last week...
...When Hungarian-born Author Hans Habe (A Thousand Shall Fall), then a U.S. Army major, founded the paper in 1945, he hired the best non-Nazi German talent on the market. Some of the Zeitung's specialists make $750 a month. The paper can afford to pay well. It pays neither rent nor taxes, accepts no ads, and rakes in (along with its sister periodicals) $5,000,000 a year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office...