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Fascism, meanwhile, was putting on a somewhat pip-squeak show in Rome last week, necessitated by the fact that the Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Protocols have lost one leg of this never very imposing diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...
Thereafter, for seven months in Hollywood she did no cinema work, living first with Hungarian Ilona Massey, then in a simple, six-room bungalow in Beverly Hills, polishing her English, training her speaking voice, observing Hollywood ways. She swam, batted tennis balls, expertly-played her piano, stole the show at a few beauty-ridden Hollywood parties, to which she was squired at times by Rudy Vallee, Howard Hughes and lately by Actor Reginald Gardiner. When last April Producer Wanger borrowed her from M.G.M. for Algiers, it was discovered that she would require padding to fill out her bust -a deficiency...
Died. Count László Széchényi, 59, one-time (1922-33) Hungarian Minister to the U. S., husband of Gladys Vanderbilt; of a heart attack; in a Budapest sanatorium...
Modern surgery gave one Alexander Peter, Hungarian peasant, a bright idea when he wanted to mortgage his 320 acres. Legally that was impossible because the land was entailed for the successive benefit of any children Peasant Peter might beget before 1952. But Farmer Peter wanted to hypothecate some of the property to buy farm machinery. And although married, he had no children, wanted none, expected none. To convince the court which had jurisdiction of his farm that he was going to have none, he had a vasectomy performed on himself. This was only temporary emasculation, ruled the judges, and might...
...region given back to Germany. The Czechs grimly joke that if an anschluss were granted it would not be long until they were anschlussed, too. In point of fact, any dismemberment of Bohemia would be fatal to the Czechoslovakian Republic. Bohemia, seat of some 80% of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire's industries, is the industrial heart of the Republic. Effective and prosperous, it is the one island of conventional, economic well-being now in Central Europe.* Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason why President Benes can confidently tell visitors that if they...