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...Hungarian-born Alexander Korda famed movie producer—Knight Bachelor. Wife Merle Oberon may now be called Lady Korda...
Into the Bosnian mountains marched a new Nazi punitive expedition, augmenting 500,000 German, Italian and Hungarian troops who had proved better at civilian terrorization* than at crushing Mihailovich's "invisible" mountaineers. Symbol of resistance. Mihailovich drew new recruits from all the Balkans. Possibly he had 200,000 men in all. But he was not invulnerable. At week's end, the exiled Yugoslav Government in London announced that his troops were hard pressed in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Hopeful of arms and help from somewhere, somehow, Mihailovich himself radioed that his position was "critical...
...Council offered scholarships and subsidies to universities to start courses. Its intensive courses have already begun or are scheduled to begin this summer at nine universities (principally at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, California). Languages to be taught: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Modern Greek, Icelandic, Malay, Mongol, Hungarian, Portuguese, Siamese, Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili, Dutch...
...tunes of the hour. Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Kay Kyser, Bing Crosby rate high. When Consolidated Aircraft Corp. tried heavy classics on its programs, workers hooted. But Portland's huge Oregon Shipbuilding Yard draws no complaints when it goes as high as Brahms' Fifth and Sixth Hungarian Dances...
...Budapest, Count Bela Teleki, spokesman for the Transylvanian Deputies in Hungary's Lower Chamber, cried: "We must take action to insure that the shameful conditions [in Rumanian Transylvania], under which Hungarian nationals are robbed of all their possessions and are oppressed, end immediately...