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...months before he died of Hodgkin's disease, at 33, Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry...
...York last week, Anna Kethly, a Minister of State in the eight-day government of Premier Imre Nagy, reported that Nagy, now in a Rumanian prison, will probably be brought back to Budapest shortly for trial. Two other ministers in Nagy's Cabinet have already been brought back and lodged in Fo Utca Prison, Miss Kethly said, and their trial presumably will provide the backdrop for Nagy's. Said Anna Kethly: "The Prime Minister is under great pressure to confess. A special investigation group was set up by the MVD and the AVH for this reason. Not only...
...hour after hour in Rome the Italian security police questioned their prize Rumanian refugee-an army colonel who was also a distinguished psychiatrist. They questioned him not because they doubted his story (which they did not for long) but because of what he had to tell. Rumania, Czar Nicholas II once said, is not a nationality but a profession. To judge by the doctor's story, being a Rumanian Communist leader today is getting close to being the oldest of professions...
...medical officer in the Rumanian air force, Dr. Alexander Cohen, graduate of Paris and London medical schools, had news of the moral and physical health of many top Rumanians. Porcine Ana Pauker, onetime Communist boss, had a secret cancer operation at a Vienna hospital in 1951. Now 63, Ana Pauker ("who frequented all the right beds in her time and once had a direct phone line to Stalin") still lives in her luxurious apartment in Bucharest, comforted by large doses of tranquilizers (evipan) and morphine (regular 1½-grain doses administered by state doctors). Ana Pauker lost power in Stalin...
Died. Constantine Brancusi, 81, famed, bearded Rumanian sculptor whose polished bronze propeller-blade-like Bird in Space stirred a noisy controversy in 1926 when U.S. Customs officials tried to tax him for importing huge hunks of bronze "under the pretext of art"; of a heart attack; in Paris...