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...that he preferred "imperialist Coca-Cola to the best home-distilled vodka." Last month Weatherman Putrament held up a moist forefinger and got the feel of a new breeze blowing through Poland. The country, he said forthwith, was drifting away from Socialism into anarchy, thus creating the danger of "Hungarian tragedies." He accused the young hotheads in the vanguard of Gomulka's national movement of "cheerfully blowing up the very bases of our ideology...
...Music even offers a course in American musical comedy). Moreover, incurable operetta addicts are beginning to pretend that there really is not so much difference between the old and the new. Said one dreamy rationalizer: "I can see it all. Let's say Frank Butler is really a Hungarian cavalry officer who had to leave his country-some disgraceful duel over an actress. Annie is really the daughter of a millionaire Chicago meat packer. Call the whole thing The Duchess of Chicago and we'll feel right at home again...
Heimler was chosen from a group of 250 Hungarian student refugees by a House committee of Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and Louis Lefeber, instructor in Economics. The two interviewed about eight or ten of the highest ranking of these, and chose Heimler because of his "intellectul equipment, disposition, and ability to integrate himself into the community...
...refugee attended a gymnasium in Budapest, where he received a good education in classical subjects, and as a result, is "not so technically oriented as most Hungarian students are," Lefeber said. Refused admittance at the University of Budapest because his parents are middle-class, Heimler is reportedly interested in pre-medical studies...
...first time that able, intense Gabe Pressman has made trouble for the authorities. Touring Europe on a Pulitzer traveling scholarship at 24, Columbia Graduate Pressman tried to crash the trial of Hungarian Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, was told there were no seats left. He produced pictures showing empty seats in the courtroom and was admitted, one of the two U.S. correspondents at the trial (the other: U.P.'s Ed Korry). Back in the U.S., Pressman got a job as a City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station...