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...months he has been in a tiny padded cell, this frail little man with glittering eyes and a gentle smile-five hours a day, four days a week. He is not crazy, just listening. The man is Hungary's eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...
...Budapest, Count Bela Teleki, spokesman for the Transylvanian Deputies in Hungary's Lower Chamber, cried: "We must take action to insure that the shameful conditions [in Rumanian Transylvania], under which Hungarian nationals are robbed of all their possessions and are oppressed, end immediately...
Just about gone are the days of Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and their good old-fashioned horror pictures. Occasionally one of them crops up again with a week-kneed off-shoot of Frankenstein, but every effort fails to recapture the mood. Originally, Stevenson's "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" was one of the standout pictures of this melodramatic school; in today's guise, it is merely another problem in psychology...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
...Berlin announced that Hungarian Communist Bela Kun had been taken prisoner by counter-revolutionary Ukrainians. (Last previous report on Bela Kun was that he had been purged in Russia in 1939.) Another from Berlin: Reichstag Fire-famed Georgi Dimitroff would soon be named special Soviet emissary...