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Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Volume I (Béla Bartók, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Hungarian Modernist Bartók neatly pecks out some of the 153 pungent, tricky-rhythmed pieces from his Mikrokosmos (little world), which he composed for piano students-much as Gertrude Stein might write an English grammar...
Caught short by the President's fund-freezing order were foreign Cinemactresses llona Massey (Hungarian), Ingrid Bergman (Swedish), Michele Morgan (French), and Directors Rene Clair and Jean Renoir, both French. Miss Massey, given $125 out of her weekly $2,500 pay check, thought she could get along, made no bones about admitting she once lived on $6 a month as a Budapest seamstress...
...Hungarian spokesmen declared that Hungary would take only normal military precautions in times of nearby war, such as the strengthening of frontier guards...
...first stage of the world revolution, and Herbert Hoover, unlike most conservatives, knew it almost as soon as the revolutionists. He also had a formula for checking it: food. He was so successful that Communists hate no one worse than Hoover, whom they accuse of overthrowing the Hungarian Soviet by withholding rations. But while, as a practical man, Hoover was saving Europe's civilization with U.S. food, as a scholar he was saving Europe's social records...
...Library's irreplaceable Hungarian archives came in a different way. When the Hungarian Soviet fell, Hoover Representative Ralph Haswell Lutz (now chairman of the Library's Board of Directors) strolled around to the soviet offices to see how things were going. The Communists were all gone. "You may remember," says Hoover pleasantly, "that a number of them killed themselves." So Lutz had a truck back up to the door, removed two large packing cases full of records to the U.S. Consulate where he defended them against all comers. Later the Horthy Government requested that they be returned...