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Roamin' in the Gloamin', one of his most popular tunes, and a 1911 track by that "loud, cheerful noise," Sophie Tucker, in which she belts out Some of These Days in a voice already impressively seamed and corrugated. The piano selections by Rachmaninoff (Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, recorded in 1919) and Moriz Rosenthal (various Chopin Preludes, recorded in 1929) are less successful, chiefly because the early acoustical method of recording tended to blur the percussive piano sound. But Rachmaninoff's glittering technique is there, and so is a remarkable and ornate cadenza that is preserved...
...this point, Judge Bimbo abruptly recessed the trial. He later handed down a 7½-year jail sentence for Father Lenard and terms ranging from 2½ to seven years for the other ten defendants. By Hungarian standards, that sounded moderate enough. The question was whether Lenard would ever see the end of his sentence or would, like many other zealous Hungarian Catholics before him, mysteriously die in jail...
...Father Lenard's defiant colloquy with the judge was vivid testimony to the fact that the Christian faith is a stubborn adversary, even for Communism's ruthless men. Upon news of the arrests, Budapest's Archbishop Joseph Grosz, acting head of the Hungarian clergy, fired off a letter to the government. "If the arrested priests are guilty," he said, "then I, too, must be guilty. Arrest me and put me in prison with my friends." Prudently, the government chose to ignore the dare...
...packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer Miki Sekers, finally got back to Kensington Palace just before dawn...
...world became Von Wiegand's dateline. He went everywhere, usually twice. War was his private preserve. He spotted the first World War in the making, and in July 1914 he made the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia the subject of a 138-word cable to the United Press, then his employer. His reward was a rebuke for the length of his message. He was on hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon...