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Last week Noel and Herta Field popped back into sight as the Hungarian government announced their release from political prison. The Fields' reaction was typically "arch-individualistic"-instead of dashing for freedom, they elected to repair to a Hungarian hospital and hole up, incommunicado. Hermann, released with apologies three weeks earlier by Poland with the admission that it had all been a terrible mistake, flew to Zurich, where CIA agents slapped a cloak of security around him and hustled him off to a secret reunion with his wife. No one could yet be sure whether the Fields, individually...
...Hungary, September 1949, Laszlo Rajk, lifelong Communist, top party theoretician, onetime all-powerful Hungarian Interior Minister and later Foreign Minister, pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi. And who got Rajk into the gory plot? "Noel Field," cried the prosecutor, "one of the leaders of American espionage," who "specialized in recruiting spies from among left-wing elements." Verdict: hanging (and burial in unmarked graves) for Laszlo Rajk and four others; life imprisonment...
Bass for Pablo. The recipes range from serviceable to mouthwatering. They are, fortunately, not restricted to the elusive complexities of French cuisine, but make some gratifying forays into solid Viennese and Hungarian cooking. Their names alone are fascinating, e.g., Dublin Coffee James Joyce, Hot Toddy for Cold Night, Nameless Cookies, Very Good Chocolate Mousse, Tricolored Omelette, Chicken in Half Mourning, Scheherazade's Melon, Virgin Sauce...
...modern Europe's greatest novelists, including Proust. Mann and Joyce, European culture is a dying patient at whose bedside they have arrived too late. Societies in rigor mortis also fascinated Robert Musil, a little-known Austrian ex-army officer, who began dissecting the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1922 in a novel called The Man Without Qualities, and kept at it until he died 20 years and 2,000 pages later. U.S. publishers of the book are releasing one-fifth of it at a time (the first installment appeared last year-TIME, June 8, 1953). It is a fascinating book...
...plot concerns a so-called "Collateral Campaign" to celebrate the Austro-Hungarian Emperor's 70th jubilee. The campaign grinds along like a slow bus to nowhere. Committees beget committees, pressure groups stall each other in what one critic described as the dance of rainmakers who have lost their magic. The ruling class sketched by Author Musil has lost not only its magic, but its faith in God, its fear of the Devil and its confidence in itself. It has opinions but no convictions, techniques but no principles, ideals but no beliefs. In short, its troubles may be more timely...