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That surprised stocky, Hungarian-born Emery Reves, prewar agent for most of Europe's writer-statesmen (Churchill, Eden, Reynaud, Sforza, etc.). From long experience Agent Reves thought that he knew an important document when he saw one. The Attlee piece was his first postwar offering. Last week, when Labor won and Attlee became Prime Minister, some 35 of the previously disinterested papers changed their minds, sent him rush orders for the article...
Married. Peter Lorre, 41, Hungarian-born cinemactor specializing in whimsically fiendish roles (M; Hotel Berlin); and Kaaren Verne, 27, Vienna-born cinemactress (The Seventh Cross, Kings Row): both for the second time; directly after her uncontested divorce from British Band leader Arthur Young; in Las Vegas...
...Hungarian-born Arthur Koestler, once a Communist and still a Socialist, wears what he calls an Old School tie that is "one of the most distinguished . . . of the good old Continent." In Germany, the Old School was named Dachau and Buchenwald; in Spain, it was Seville (Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes...
...taken over. With the assistance of former Zeitung employes, the U.S. Army printed 620,000 copies of a new free, four-page paper for German civilians, the Frankfurter Presse. It was the third and largest U.S.-edited German language paper (others: in Aachen and Cologne), all edited by Hungarian-born Hans Habe (4 Thousand Shall Fall), now a U.S. Army captain...
Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...