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Died. James Pringle, 51, veteran Associated Press war photographer; of cancer; in Rome. Pringle covered the Blitz, the Allies' advance across Europe, the Korean War, the Hungarian and Algerian Revolutions, winning his colleagues' esteem for his craftsmanship and their awe for his Irish fearlessness in the face of fire. "Why, they can't hit me," he once said as bullets buzzed overhead. "After all, I carry an Irish passport...
Died. Rosie Dolly, 77, one of Broadway's glamorous dancing Dolly Sisters who with her identical twin Jenny, was the toast of two continents in the Roaring Twenties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Beautiful and talented, the daughters of Hungarian immigrants (Roszika and Yancsi Deutch), they danced to packed houses on both sides of the Atlantic. Jenny, after several unhappy marriages, hanged herself in 1941. Rosie married Canadian Millionaire Mortimer Davis Jr., later shed him for wealthy Chicago Department Store Heir Irving Netcher...
...Sharp Minor Quartet? Women, for one thing. The wife of a certain conductor, Beethoven once confided to a friend, had "a magnificent fanny from the side." Another concern in Beethoven's bachelor household was how to obtain writing paper, domestic help and food-fish, oysters and Hungarian wines were his special favorites-as cheaply as possible. That was important, since Beethoven was one of the greatest penny pinchers who ever lived. He was delighted to receive a fountain pen that held ink for five days, to hear about a new fragrance for men that supposedly was better than...
...minimum-wage law in the 1890s, my parents might not have been able to migrate to the U.S.. because there would have been fewer job opportunities available." If Franz Joseph had instituted a minimum-wage law, that would have reduced employment opportunities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and encouraged, not discouraged, emigration...
...much longer appears to be the question-and the prognosis is dim. The British equivalent of France's Guide Michelin is an annual directory of hotels, inns, restaurants and pubs published for the past 13 years by Travel Critic Egon Ronay, a Hungarian-born ex-hotelier. In the 1970 edition of his Guide, Ronay calls hotel breakfasts, "with notable exceptions, one of the heavier crosses we bear on our inspections." More specifically, the guide's 16 food tasters and bed testers reported "disgusting coffee, cold toast, tinned juices, brought into one's room with the delicacy...