Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about muscles is the fact that they rarely develop cancer. So, by the arcane logic of scientific research, what appears to be a hopeful line of cancer research is being conducted by one of the world's greatest authorities on muscle. He is Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 69, the Hungarian-born Nobel prizewinner* who is head of the Institute for Muscle Research in Woods Hole, Mass...
...founded in what is now Budapest the first Hungarian convent of the Poor Clares of the Order of St. Francis, and for the rest of her life, she showered it with gifts. Among these was a "small altarpiece for domestic use of silver gilt." Was this the same work now at The Cloisters? Hungarian scholars have always thought so. Cloisters Curator Margaret Freeman, who presumably knows (but will not tell) where the museum got it, feels ready to agree...
Died. Rene Robert Bouche, 57, brilliant Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover artist (Jean Kerr, Sophia Loren, John F. and Edward Kennedy); of a heart attack; in Ling-field, England. A slight, wiry, cosmopolite (Czech-born, to a French father, Hungarian mother), Bouche studied in Munich and Paris, went through "all the isms-expressionism, surrealism, nonobjectivism"-before settling in New York in 1941 to find his real calling: chronicling "the quintessential people of our time" from Arp to Zeckendorf, and producing a gallery always elegant and sometimes profound-as when he painted Elsa Maxwell as a Velasquez court dwarf...
...piece band played old Hungarian gypsy songs, and some 300 society sports quickly got into the spirit of things at the Imperial Room restaurant of Manhattan's Delmonico Ho tel. Owner S. Joseph Tankoos Jr. wants to build a new restaurant, so he threw a smashing party that fairly broke up the old joint. Actress Anita Louise specialized in throwing trays of glasses; Fashion Leader Mrs. Harcourt Amory wielded a sledge hammer on a 30-ft. red velvet-lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on. But Mrs. Wellington...
Died. Richard Baer, 51, last commandant of Auschwitz (May 1944-January 1945), who supervised the murder of 380,000 Hungarian Jews and then disappeared until West German police caught up with him in 1960; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt, where he was awaiting trial...