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...home town of Baja, declared he had not one drop of Jewish blood in his veins, showed baptismal certificates of his grandparents to prove it. This was his answer to a widespread whispering campaign that the Premier, author of severe anti-Semitic bills introduced recently in the Hungarian Parliament, was himself part Jewish...
Oddly enough, about the only people who were sorry to see part-Jewish Premier Imredy go were the Jew-hating German Nazis. Premier Imredy, while obliged to jail Hungarian Nazi Leader Major Ferenc Szalasi for seditious activities, nevertheless had proved amenable to Nazi ideas. The Premier last month announced plans to bring Hungary into the German-Italian-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact. His racial laws were in some respects even sterner than the Nazis' own Nürnberg decrees. And the Premier had planned to suspend Parliament and set up a totalitarian, one-party State with himself as probable...
...years Odon von Horvath lived in the shadow of a huge, sinister, apparently dead but always growing tree-the German State. He was born in 1901 in what was then Serbia, where his father served in the Austro-Hungarian embassy. He was educated in Budapest. During his adolescence the German tree trunk burned itself hollow with...
Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending...
...assisting artist, gave the new Rhapsody its first public airing. To play it Szigeti needed two different violins, Goodman two clarinets. To articulate Composer Bartók's complicated rhythms both Fiddler Szigeti and Swingster Goodman needed all the gumption they could muster. Because the rhythms were as Hungarian as goulash, perspiring Middle-Westerner Goodman never quite got into the groove. But Hungarian Szigeti went to town, rode his pony so excitedly he broke his E string...