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...General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney and onetime civilian aide to the Secretary of War; and one woman, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg, labor-relations expert...
Died. László Moholy-Nagy (pronounced Mohoy-Nadj), 51, Hungarian-born founder-director of Chicago's Institute of Design; of leukemia; in Chicago. Onetime top apostle of Germany's famed Bauhaus at Dessau (closed by the Nazis), he thought of art in terms of 20th Century mass production, inspired his Chicago students to design automobiles to run on sunlight, chairs light enough to be lifted by a thread, transparent walls filled with colored gases...
...Hungarian-born George Tabori, 32, is almost unknown as a novelist. Educated in Germany, trained as a journalist in the Balkans and the Middle East, he now lives in England, has worked for the BBC since 1943. Companions of the Left Hand,* his second novel (the first: Beneath the Stone, 1945), is a sardonic political parable, overwritten in spots, preachy in others, but crafty, speculative and Koestler-like in its ambiguities and undertones...
...Price. Rich's had come a long way since it was founded in 1867 by an 18-year-old Hungarian-born Jew. While other merchants haggled with customers, set a different price for everyone, Morris Rich tagged his merchandise, stuck to a one-price policy. He capitalized on the fact that Rich's was on the wrong side of the tracks to capture the trade of low-salaried Atlantans, snooted the carriage trade. Rich's kept its customers by reversing the slogan of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. ("No one is in debt to Macy...
...nosed, Hungarian-born Edward Teller had just returned to Chicago from the Los Alamos Laboratory. The situation there, said Teller, was "catastrophic." Only a handful of scientists remained, and they would leave too unless the Army made drastic changes. The bomb had certainly upset his life, he said. "All of a sudden I found myself changed to a person who criticized everything...