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...BartÓk was an orphan of the 20th century. NagyszentmiklÓs, the Hungarian town in which he was born a century ago, was ceded to Rumania in 1920. Nagyszöllös, where he wrote his first compositions at the age of nine, is now part of the Soviet Union. Pozsony, where he spent his teen-age years, has become Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He died of leukemia in New York City in 1945, a refugee from the war, living at the end in a cramped apartment on West 57th Street...
...device is also sometimes called the Hungarian Horror, since it can induce temporary dementia in otherwise balanced citizens. It has become, in the words of a senior buyer for FAO Schwarz, the Manhattan toy emporium, "the world's most asked-for plaything." It can also be an obsession, an infuriation and an invitation to insomnia, distracting workers from their jobs, students from their theses, even lovers from love. Scholars compare it to Sam Loyd's puzzle, an 1873 American invention that was said to have driven 1,500 people to insanity...
Thanks to modern mass marketing, the lunacy quotient may be far higher with the cube. Ideal Toy Corp., which makes the cube under an agreement with a Hungarian state manufacturing company, produced 4.5 million last year (retail price: $6 to $10) and expects to sell far more in 1981. Other companies are manufacturing and distributing versions of the cube, while pirated editions are being turned out in Taiwan and Hong Kong...
...show business, from Bowery saloons to vaudeville to television, where they enjoyed a late resurgence as performers on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s; in Englewood, N.J. Smith and Charlie Dale joined forces in 1898, building their enduring appeal on a series of broad, boisterous sketches like "Hungarian Rhapsody" and the classic "Dr. Kronkheit" ("Doctor, how much is it a visit?" "Ten dollars the first visit, five dollars thereafter." "Here I am again!"). The pair, who continued to work together until Dale's death in 1971, partly inspired the Neil Simon play and film The Sunshine Boys, which...
...Hungarian-born Zoltan Rendessy, whose Zoli agency is one of Ford's and Elite's strong cornpetitors, agrees that well-scrubbed class is at a premium. "Clean and healthy," he says. "I tell my girls to look antiseptic, clean, clean, clean...