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...Antal Dorati, 54, decided to call it quits after eleven years with the Minneapolis Symphony, plans to spend the next two or three years as a freelance conductor, mostly in Europe. A vigorous orchestra builder (he virtually remade the Dallas Symphony between 1945 and 1948), Hungarian-born Dorati took over the Minneapolis from Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1948, extended the orchestra's repertory and season, but now feels that he can push the orchestra no further. Says Dorati blandly: "An artist of my caliber-and I am one of the best-must always be building." Replacing Dorati in Minneapolis...
...replacement for the late Eduard van Beinum, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced the appointment of Hungarian-born Georg Solti, 47, now musical director of the excellent Frankfurt Opera. Solti has guest-conducted most major U.S. orchestras, built a reputation in Europe as a fine interpreter of Mozart and Wagner, next season will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting a revival of Tannhäuser. But his main enthusiasm, he has said, is symphonic conducting, particularly in the U.S. Says he: "This is the country of the future. And it has a growing music tradition. I like something that...
...nouns, the heroes of the other three biographies are interchangeable. All had remarkable, up-from-the-shoetops careers; all are so faultless and sinless that they must certainly be potential candidates for beatification as well as the U.S. presidency. The Nixon biography is the work of Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian refugee who, according to the dust jacket, learned English by going to American movies. This is undoubtedly true. The book includes a replica of Mother Hannah Nixon's handwritten recipe for cherry pie, as well as the information that young Dick won one of his first elections (president...
...embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal more than was normally intended of the actress' smooth poitrine...
...pretty Negro coed and one of seven children of a barber in Plain Dealing, La. (pop. 1,321). She will study political science at the University of Illinois, hopes to "improve our people's knowledge of their country." And there are hundreds more, from a former Hungarian freedom fighter at Illinois' Monmouth College, who could barely speak English three years ago, to a onetime Louisiana truck farmer, now studying advanced history at the University of North Carolina...