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Died. Geza Herczeg, 65, Hungarian-born playwright and scenario writer (The Life of Emile Zola, Wonder Bar); of a heart attack; in Rome...
Some 250 Vigilant Women for the Bricker Amendment gathered in Washington, shook their heads sadly as Mrs. Robert Vogeler (wife of the freed prisoner of the Hungarian Reds) cried: "Men who serve their country now have fewer rights than men who betray it." Another orator made the Vigilant Women fairly squeal with delight when he gave his reasons for changing the U.S. Constitution, beginning with: "This is the 74th birthday of General Douglas MacArthur." The speaker was Clarence Manion, ex-dean of the University of Notre Dame's law school, now chairman of President Eisenhower's Commission...
...magazine and UNESCO, bringing forth children's work from 34 countries, showed that the specters of hunger and war have somewhat receded. Regional moods could be detected. Scandinavian pictures were dark and brooding, Italian entries sunny and gay. One youngster from the Cameroons painted a fearsome witchdoctor, a Hungarian contestant did a festival scene with a hammer & sickle. Worldwide winner: Tulip Fields, an imaginative, untroubled pastoral by The Netherlands' Hans Evendik, 13. On the whole, the junior painters were far more refreshing than the current crop of older artists. Paris art critics were moved by what Les Nouvelles...
...years, Rich's stuck not only to the old home town but to the old home neighborhood. Founder Morris Rich, a Hungarian immigrant of 19, opened his 75-by-25-ft. store in 1867 on the unfashionable side of Atlanta, and on that side Rich's stayed. Still owned by the Rich family, the store has also stuck to customer-winning policies, e.g., no time limit on the return of merchandise. Last year a woman exchanged a pair of shoes bought more than 13 years before; she had been "too busy" to return them sooner. The policies paid...
Divorced. Arthur Koestler, 48, Hungarian-born ex-Communist writer of political novels (Darkness at Noon) and politico-mystical essays (The Yogi and the Commissar); by his second wife, Mamaine Paget Koestler, 36; after almost four years of marriage, no children; in London...