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When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia back in 1939, Hans Lenk's world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...
Jeritza could hardly restrain herself from giving lessons. Once she grabbed an astonished young partner in the "Czardas" number, whirled him nearly off his feet, crying, "Here-a Hungarian goes like this!" Another time, a dancer wound up in front of her. "Behind me! Behind me!'' she cried. "Never get in front of anybody on the stage!" Nobody really cared that the luster was gone from her voice. "Naturally, she's not going to sing the way she did a generation back," a musician said. "Nobody expects her to. But also don't forget that...
Notified that U.S. diplomats in Hungary were restricted to an 18-mile zone around Budapest, the State Department dispatched a curt note: "Effective immediately, members of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in the United States . . . are prohibited from staying "or traveling beyond a specified area except by express permission . . . The designated area is fixed at a distance of 18 miles from the White House, Washington...
Rhapsody from Hunger (y). Spike Jones and his irreverent City Slickers (Victor) pull the tail of several old war horses, including Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, with the usual catastrophic results...
...girl who put the V in TV") and blonde Actress Eva Gabor who, last week, unquestionably won the neckline sweepstakes by assembling on her show her entire décolleté family (pretty sisters Magda and Sari, mother Jolie) in a memorable display of dazzling shoulders and Hungarian accents...