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Franz Lehar is not only a Hungarian; he is a Rotarian. The best of this gifted sexagenarian's melodies-lyrically proclaim his Magyar background. The Lehar melodic line at its best is marvelously cunning, fresh, deceptive. It climbs like a lark to clear heights, then swoops down and off in a breathtaking, unexpected course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became bitter enemies. Admiral Richard E. Byrd knocked out Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Transatlantic Tradition | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...deathly song"-because disappointment and suffering are felt by everyone alike. If the songs which burst from my heart will not be chosen by suicides as their "death march," but by those who seek balm for their hearts, I shall feel happy if I can accomplish this. With Magyar brotherly love, Your true friend, RESZO SERESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...best. On the railroad sidings above were 15,000 unsold carloads of their low-grade handiwork. The mine owner, Danube Steam Navigation Co., largely British-owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Suicide Strike | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Ninety-seven thousand Pittsburgh schoolchildren gave a dime apiece toward the $5,000,000 already spent on the Cathedral. A Magyar woman gave the price of a month's meat. A millworker offered his all. But modern cathedrals are not built by small fry. To Pittsburgh's potent industrialists Chancellor Bowman had to turn for the huge chunks of cash which his dream demands. His trustees include Andrew William Mellon and his nephew Richard, Oilman Joseph Clifton Trees, Foodman Howard Heinz. Westinghouse Boardchairman Andrew Wells Robertson, Banker Henry Clay McEldowney, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Plank at Pitt | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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