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...Among Hungarians, or their descendants, who have made names for themselves: such musicians as Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...
...between the "goers" and the "stayers," but there was no bitterness between the two groups. "I have to go back," one of the goers told a weeping Hungarian girl from Queensland. "My parents are old, and I may be the only one able to give them bread." Crew Coach Zoltan Torok, while still in Prague, had made up his mind to escape in Australia. Others sounded out Australians and U.S. team members, and were given assurances...
Early on the fifth day of the revolution, the Soviet leaders made a crucial decision: they agreed that Hungary should have a new government in which two (out of 28) ministers would be nonCommunists. Premier Nagy announced that Bela Kovacs would be Minister of Agriculture, and Zoltan Tildy Minister of State. Both men were members of the Smallholders Party, which took 57% of the popular vote in the 1945 free elections but was later squeezed out of existence by the Communists. As first President of the Republic, aging (66) Zoltan Tildy's record was undistinguished, and he had resigned...
World War II: while Hungary's Big Five (Nagy, Rakosi, Gero, Joseph Revai and Zoltan Vas) lived comfortably in Moscow, Kadar sweated it out in the Hungarian Communist underground Beke Part (Peace Party; membership, 1,000). Trying to make liaison with Tito's partisans, he was captured by Hitler's Gestapo, but escaped in time to meet incoming Russians. Delighted to find a real tough Communist resistance fighter, the Big Five made him a Politburo member, and deputy police chief (he knew who was who in Nazi Hungary). In 1948 he was Minister of Interior during...
...golden jubilee as a conductor 16 years ago; Sargent's own Impression of a Windy Day, which had its prom premiere in 1921; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, played by Pianist Mark Hambourg, 75, who played his first prom in 1896; Hary Janos Suite, by Hungary's Zoltan Kodaly, which, like works by many other modern composers (e.g., Bartok and Stravinsky), was first introduced to a curious London public at the prom concerts...