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...Friday night at 8 p.m. the Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs will perform classical and athletic songs at their annual football concert in Woolsey Hall. Harvard's part of the program will include-sacred music of the Rennaissance, Hungarian and Slavic folksongs, and a rendition of Leonard Bernstein '39's "Lonely Men of Harvard," a popular work which David Wellborn '81, manager of the Club's summer tour, describes as "all about Harvard and how great it is," and "very obnoxious if we sang it anywhere but Yale...
...page book grew out of The Pension Grillparzer, the short story that Irving folded into the heart of Garp. That work tells of a father who takes his family to stay in a seedy Viennese hotel. It is home to a rundown Hungarian circus whose members include a shinless man who walks only on his hands and a depressed bear on a unicycle...
DIED. Marcel Breuer, 79, Hungarian-born designer and architect whose sculptural use of steel and concrete helped shape the furniture and buildings of the 20th century; of heart disease; in New York City. Working with Walter Gropius at Germany's famous Bauhaus during the 1920s, Breuer was inspired by the curve of bicycle handles to design his celebrated tubular steel and leather Wassily chair (named for Painter Wassily Kandinsky, one of its first purchasers). After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer...
DIED. George Katona, 79, Hungarian-born economist who, as director of the economic behavior program in the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, instituted the first large-scale studies of consumer attitudes and spending patterns; in West Berlin...
Another part of her appeal is pure show biz. As a star platform personality, Jungreis comes on in flashy outfits of white, black or electric purple, wearing spike heels and heavy eye makeup. All that plus a slight Hungarian accent and blond wig make her look and sound a bit like Zsa-Zsa Gabor. Staid rabbis are sometimes scandalized by her delivery, which ranges from a concerned whine to a dramatic whisper. But lay listeners are held spellbound by her blend of polemics and pizazz. Sometimes they weep openly as she speaks about the possible fate of Israel...