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President Eisenhower last week named John Von Neumann, 50, a cheerful, portly professor with a passion for cookies and ionospheric mathematical problems, to be a member of the Atomic Energy Commission for a five-year term. Mathematician Von Neumann,* a Budapest-born naturalized American, has been a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study for 21 years, and is a close friend of Drs. Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He and his unique theories and formulas are the talk of economists and mathematicians the world over...
...their neatness, transparent textures and often, inconsequence. His departure leaves a gap in the ranks of U.S. music journalism: there is now no practicing musician in its top ranks, no dedicated champion of modern U.S. composers. His post on the Trib will be filled by Columbia University's Budapest-born Music-Historian Paul Henry Lang, author of the scholarly, 1043-page Music in Western Civilization. Quips one friend: "He thinks music ceased to exist at the death of Schubert...
Finding vanity invincible, Hungary's Communist bosses recently opened state-owned beauty parlors in Budapest. Government-operated plants began to turn out face powder, creams, shampoos, etc. But the stuff was shoddy, the kissproof lipstick ran, and women went back to the black market. Last week, retreating but not beaten, state stores were selling "imported cosmetics" at up to twelve times the price of the local products. Even so, many were ersatz products wearing fake French and U.S. labels...
...Brazil got into the finals but lost out to Uruguay. Brazil promptly went into a week of mourning. This year the Brazilians were out to cop the cup. The team they had to beat: the lithe and husky Hungarians, 1952 Olympic champions and the hottest team out of Budapest since the Gabor sisters...
Party Line. Hungary, once a limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter...