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...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...
...that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...
First Ever. Black-haired, handsome (despite a nose broken in childhood), Jim Beatty does his moonlighting on the dirt track at Los Angeles' Dorsey High School, where he runs 100 miles a week under the watchful eyes of Mihaly Igloi, a former Hungarian Olympic coach who defected at Melbourne in 1956. "I have absolute faith in Coach," says Beatty. "I don't understand his formula; I just do what he says. If he told me to run a 3-min. 50-sec mile [world record: 3 min. 54.4 sec.], I'd do it." Farfetched as this...
...Bugsy F. Foglemayer, a might-have-been menace who has plenty of big ideas but unfortunately keeps them in an itsy-bitsy brain. "I'm a unsussessful crinimal," Bugsy sighs, "because I had a unhappy childhood. My parents didn't understand me. I spoke English, they spoke Hungarian." To win success and "get my name on the front page of every history book," Bugsy resolves to commit "the greatest crime of the censury"-a $3,000,000 bank robbery in Boston...
...Hungarian-born scientist, now director of the Institute for Muscle Research at Woods Hole, said that he was speaking to the public "for the second time in 25 years" partly because "there is an enormous vested interest in armaments and none in peace; moral concepts seem to carry no weight in politics...