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...high-spirited orchestral sketches are based on an opera celebrating the exploits of Háry János, the Magyar Baron Munchausen. The musical climax is Háry's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galánta, named for the little town where Kodály as a boy listened to the gypsies play...
...Hungarian writers and artists, whose demands for freedom inspired the 1956 revolution, word of Russia's restalinization of culture at first caused a bad case of jitters. Yet last week, in striking contrast to the clampdown in Moscow, Budapest seemed almost relaxed. Said Cultural Commissar Istvan Szirmai: "The party will be tolerant. All artistic and literary creations which are not anti-Communist will be allowed...
...defendants had been well softened beforehand and declared their "deep repentance" for their "crimes." But Father Oden Lenard astonished the court by pleading innocent. In Hungary, judges are not used to this defiance. Judge Istvan Bimbo turned to the other defendants and asked if they thought Father Lenard was guilty. All ten said yes. Then Judge Bimbo turned back to Father Lenard...
...championships at Madison Square Garden, Kidd won the three-mile in 13:47 while trouncing Record Holder Al Lawrence, 30. In Chicago, running in the cramped event of the mile that barely let him get warmed up, Kidd not only finished a respectable second to Hungary's lean Istvan Rozsavolgyi, 31, but turned the distance in 4:09.4 to set an indoor mark for schoolboys. "Phenomenal is not the right word for Kidd," says Manhattan College's Coach George Eastment. "He's better than that." Relaxing Flap. Kidd has such natural talent that he can scorn...
Highlights of the B.A.A. Games were John Thomas' 7 foot, 3 inch high jump that now is only second best in the world; a new indoor record of 2:07.9 by smooth-pacing Ernie Cunliffe of Stanford; and the victory in the Hunter Mile of Hungary's Istvan Roszavolgi, who arrived in the country early Saturday morning...