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Died. Rosika Schwimmer, 70, Hungarian-born women's suffrage pioneer and pacifist, dominant figure behind Henry Ford's ill-starred "Peace Ship" expedition to Europe in 1915; in Manhattan. Convinced that War I could be ended by a meeting of peace pilgrims, she induced Ford to head the U.S. delegation, pledged to "getting the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." In 1929 she was denied citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court because she refused to say that she would bear arms in defense...
...fact was, as most of the U.S. was beginning to realize, that there could be no dramatic shortcut to world peace. What the U.S. could and would have to do was well expressed by Hungarian-born Novelist Arthur Koestler, onetime Communist and now a crusader against Communism, arriving for his first visit...
...years in Pittsburgh, Hungarian-born Fritz Reiner's sharp tongue and stern baton won him more admirers than friends. But he gave Pittsburgh an orchestra to be proud of. Three years ago, when the trustees let him build it up to 90 men and lengthen the season, the Pittsburgh Symphony became one of the ten best...
...Hungarian-born Eugen Varga was a major prophet among Soviet economic seers. He undertook to make an analysis of the war's effect on the economy of capitalist countries. After patient study of the portents, he put his conclusions in a book which was not allowed circulation outside a close circle of party potentates...
...never been an editor. Last week he got his chance. Hungarian-born Alexander Ince, onetime publisher of Stage magazine, bought Theatre Arts (circ. 30,000), a Variety for highbrows. He invited MacArthur to run it. O.K., wired Mac, on 20 conditions (samples: get me twelve geniuses, move the office to Palm Springs, get Lana Turner as my secretary). He settled for a block of stock...