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...Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with which, incidentally, the Glee Club compares quite favorably. Before covering Italy, Germany, France, and England on Side Two, the Club creates a various and delightful performance of Bela Bartok's Five Slovak Folksongs...
...Club began its three-week tour in Japan, singing sacred music in Latin, Brahms Liebeslieder in German, chansons in French, Bartok folk songs in Slovak, and even three folk songs in Japanese. The programs ranged from the 15th century to Copland, but the Japanese audience of 2300 persons seemed to like best the Club's spirited rendering of the Harvard fight song, "Yo Ho, The Good Ship Harvard." The visitors spent their nighs in Japan as guests at the homes of university students...
There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...
...last in the 17th century they were driven out, the remaining Magyars found themselves a vassal state in the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.* In 1848, when all Europe was arumble with the thunder of revolt, young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short-lived. Skillful players at the old European army game, the Habsburgs invited...
Intelligence Report. In Elliston, Ohio, charged with tampering with mails, Postmaster Reuben R. Stick admitted opening and reading High-School Teacher Emil Slovak's mail for 16 weeks, explained that he was just curious to see how Slovak was getting along...