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...women did better: California's pesky 5-ft. 1-in. mite, Mimi Arnold, 19, startled the crowd with a savage 10-8, 6-3 mauling of Britain's ballyhooed six-footer, Christine Truman. Then Arnold lost in the quarterfinals to Mme. Suzi Kormoczi, 33, the shrewd Hungarian typist. That pinned remaining U.S. hopes, as usual these days, on poker-faced Althea Gibson, 30. In the final, Althea efficiently walked over Britain's Angela Mortimer 8-6, 6-2. But nowhere was there a sign of that combustible quality that lights the eye of U.S. Pro Promoter Jack...
Died. Rudolph von Laban, 78, Hungarian-born choreographer, teacher and theorist of the dance, deviser of Labanotation, the first widely accepted, effective method of recording dance movements on paper; in London...
...Sunday morning, Nov. 4, 1956, Budapest's Radio Kossuth broadcast a message ending with the words: "To every writer in the world ... to the intelligentsia of the world! We ask all of you for help and support . . .SOS!" Then, silence. The Hungarian revolt was being crushed, the writer-intellectuals of Hungary had spoken their last free words...
...voices that speak for the silent are some 200 Hungarian writers who streamed over the border to exile and freedom; they are currently busy enough to suggest a minor cultural renaissance. In London no fewer than a dozen books on this year's publishing lists are by Hungarians (the most promising: a satire titled How to Be a Communist in 12 Lessons...
...remarkable literary cooperative. For writing paper, they stole toilet paper. They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman in the original Latin and English, then translated them into Hungarian. In the end, the Vac prisoners produced a handwritten, hand-bound, four-volume anthology of prose and verse...