Word: marko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mysterious Trio. The man who is destined to win the Grail through his design for a festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...
...frivolous Londoners, Marko seems just another glamorous eccentric, sent to amuse and thrill them with his daring antics. When, one evening, Marko appears at a reception and a rough voice bellows from the audience, "What about Varga, Lener, Goldfink?", everyone rocks with laughter at what seems an inexplicable joke. But as the months pass and the unreal festival approaches, the names of the mysterious trio keep echoing through London. Finally, a bomb of accusation bursts, in the form of the question: Did Marko make his first millions by selling his three compatriots to the Gestapo...
Along with an answer to the question, the reader also gets Marko's rationalization. "I am not my brother's keeper," he tells Captain Curtis. "I am interested in survival ... I do.not want to become a suburb of Cairo, or Moscow. A Chinese comfort-station ... I want to defend myself ... I want...
...narrow the overwhelmingly abstract field, the three-man jury, composed of the directors of the national museums of France and Belgium and Yugoslav Painter Marko Celebonovic, studied and argued for a heated five hours. Then the jury announced the winner: Ben Nicholson's August 1956-Val d'Orcia...
...more of Damon Runyon's guys & dolls to music.* This tuned-up version of the old (1935) Runyon-Howard Lindsay comedy, A Slight Case of Murder, filmed for the first time in 1938 with Edward G. Robinson, still has as its setting the Saratoga mansion of Beer Baron Marko (Broderick Crawford) in the post-Prohibition era. Here is assembled an assortment of corpses & coppers, mugs & molls, touts & thugs, not to mention a couple of bankers attempting to foreclose on Marko's needled beer brewery, an obnoxious six-year-old orphan with a squirt gun (Louis Lettieri...