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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgetown University's courtly Tibor Kerekes (pronounced Care-a-kesh), 66, professor of European history, whose 32 hugely popular years in Washington have been a mere second act to an already crowded career in the maelstrom of World War I Europe. Budapest-born, Kerekes was a Hungarian cavalryman on the Russian front (he later lost an arm), became tutor to the Habsburg family in 1917 and claims he is the only living person who knows the ''true story" of the tragedy at Mayerling. Emigrating to the U.S., he tried orange growing in Florida, wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...ENEMY (143 pp.)-Tibor Mercy -Criterion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Curtain Raisers | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Exiled Hungarian Journalist Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Curtain Raisers | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Crater Desire. In Amsterdam, after Radiation Scientist Tibor Helvey announced that he was looking for two men and a woman willing to simulate living together on the moon for eight days, women volunteers outnumbered men volunteers four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...best two stories are by Tibor Dery. and his theme is the facelessness of oppression in totalitarian life. In Love, the guards at a Budapest prison inexplicably turn loose one "B," who has been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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