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Died. S. Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 62, gelatin-jowled, Hungarian-born Holly wood character actor (Casablanca, Small Town Girl) famed for his heavily accented manglings of the English language ("No, no, no. Inside iss not; you must quick stay out!"); of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
Animal Farm (Louis de Rochemont Associates). George Orwell's political fable, the famous animallegory about Communism, has been rendered as an animated cartoon, at feature length (75 minutes), by a team of 100 artists, working in Britain under the direction of John Halas, a Hungarian, and his wife Joy Batchelor. It was three years in the making-more than 300,000 colored drawings are assembled in the final print-and it has been made, in all technical respects, quite as good as good Disney. In every other sense the picture is about as remote from Mickey Mouse as Moscow...
...Substantially as planned and edited by Sir George Grove (1820-1900), London civil engineer, biblical scholar and Zin Arthur music commentator, who was secretary of the Crystal Palace and first director of the Royal College of Music. - And sometimes quaint. Samples: "Charles,? ('Mr. Charles') b. ?, d. ?. Prob. Hungarian 18th-century horn player and clarinettist. He is a shadowy but important figure, since he was the first named performer on the clarinet in the British Isles." "ZUFFOLO. In modern Italian, the name for the tin whistle. [There is] no reason for concluding, as some have done, that [the] zuffolo...
Last week the U.S., rejecting the Hungarian complaint, said that Crusade for Freedom and Radio Free Europe, which provide the balloons, are purely private ventures. In any case, added the State Department, "the U.S. is at a loss to understand [why] the Hungarian government apparently finds repugnant the points made in the leaflets: that the Hungarian government could improve the conditions of the Hungarian people by vesting real authority in popularly chosen local councils; enforcing the practice of constitutional guarantees of free speech and free assembly; assuring equality before the law; guaranteeing the right of the working peasant...
Goodbye It looked for a time as though the world might learn some of the answers to a perplexing intrigue of the cold war: the case of the American ex-diplomat Noel Field, and his wife Herta. When the Hungarian government suddenly freed them after five years in prison on trumped-up spy charges, U.S. diplomatic officials in Budapest saw them briefly. It was possibly the last meeting Noel and Herta Field would ever have with their countrymen. Over Budapest radio last week came the announcement that Noel and Herta Field had asked for and had been granted "political asylum...