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...that the historical incident on which both the film and the show were based lacks interest. On the morning of the last day of January in 1889 Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was found shot dead in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. Beside him, and apparently the second member of a suicide pact, lay the body of the young Countess Maria Vetsera. Their deaths were the culmination of a hopeless love affair--hopeless because Rudolph had been married long before he ever met Maria. Such a story is the stuff of which...
...indoor track season hit its stride, but Laszlo Tabori, the fast Hungarian refugee, lagged far off the pace. Trying the indoor mile for the first time at the Philadelphia Inquirer meet, he ran a slow 4:10.8, finished third behind Boston's George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from...
...Hungary last week. In the past fortnight, six of the seven remaining reporters for Western wire services and newspapers have either been expelled by the government or voluntarily left Hungary because they were no longer free to gather news. Among the last to leave: Endre Marton, a Hungarian citizen who for ten years has been Budapest correspondent for Associated Press, and his wife, United Press Stringer Ilona Nyilas. The Martons, who were imprisoned in 1955 on trumped-up espionage charges, explained last week that they had no other choice but to flee their country. Other correspondents complained that they were...
...expatriate Hungarian cavalryman who ran a Long Island livery stable, Jerkens has spent most of his life around horses, was only 15 when he bought his first mount, an unfashionable, sore-legged colt named Crack Time. He spent long, cold months patching up his purchase and galloping the horse through the snow. By the time racing started at Aqueduct, Crack Time was ready. The cheap colt won $12,615 before it was lost in a $10,000 claiming race...
...Drives Committee plans to retrieve some of the clothing it has already turned some of the clothing it has already turned over to the American Friends Service Committee for Hungarian Relief and will use it instead to answer this specific request. The Committee hopes to get contributions of books from local dealers or private individuals...