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Four years ago aging Pedagogue Hubay was delighted by the playing of a 13-year-old, mop-headed youngster fresh from the Budapest Conservatory, and decided to take him as a pupil. The youngster, a Yugoslav of Hungarian parentage, named Robert Virovai, soon had all Budapest talking. Last year, just before he died, crotchety 78-year-old Hubay, who in his time had heard his share of fiddling, shook his head feelingly and said, "Young Virovai plays so beautifully as to astonish even...
...what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from that part of the public which likes to identify the artist with the screwball. What psychiatrists think about that was put simply by Bellevue's animated, mop-haired Dr. Paul Schilder: "A pathological person is forced down under the surface of everyday reality and can't get back. A normal artist can dive down and come back up with the treasure...
...approved a fee of $32,000 for SEC Commissioner Jerome Frank for 3,830 hr. and 45 min. work done as counsel to a trustee in the Missouri Pacific R. R. reorganization between 1935 and 1937. During his MOP service, Frank also counseled Government agencies. Now working full time for SEC at $10,000 a year, he says Government salaries should not be commensurate with private fees because Government jobs bring "inner satisfaction," outer prestige...
...incredible 124 seconds. Schmeling was knocked down three times in the fastest and most furious attack in ring history. No foul blow was struck. The decisive punch was a violent right to the jaw (after five rapid hooks) that landed so squarely Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short ribs-a common ribroaster in fistic circles...
...General was not on hand to hear the speech. At week's end it was not known definitely whether or not he had taken to the hills with some of his followers. As Federal troops continued to mop up the scattered rebel bands and killed, according to a Defense Ministry announcement, the General's nephew Hipolito Cedillo and eleven more agrarians, observers agreed that Boss Cedillo may have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help...