Word: budapests
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Magyars Seethe. Across the border Hungary also seethed. To Budapest hurried the Führer's trouble-shooting Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel. Old Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy listened to the emissary from the north. Then, under his strong hand, a cabinet of Magyar generals took over. Warned the new Premier. Colonel General Vitez Geza Lakatos: "Hungarians! We must defend our own frontiers. . . . We must no longer think, 'You can trust the Germans to pull...
...Albeneri Trio is made up of Alexander Schneider, former second violinist for the world-famous Budapest String Quartet, Benar Heifetz, first cellist for the NBC Symphony, and Erich Kahn, well-known pianist-composer...
Former concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestras of Frankfort, Saarbrucken, and Hamburg, Alexander Schneider was second violinist of the famed Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe, North Africa, the East Indies, Australia and America with a success yet unequalled by any other chamber organization...
While in Italy the shuttle bombers made two missions with the Fifteenth Air Force-an oil refinery at Budapest, railway freight yards in Rumania. They flew back to England, on the way bombed the Beziers railway yard near Montpellier in southern France. On this swing the shuttlers met spotty and confused Nazi air resistance. They shot down at least 45 German planes, lost only three Mustangs, not a single Fortress...
...Skater Trenkler learned to skate as a child on frozen snow. He learned to skate fast by hanging on to cars like other small boys all over the world and being chased by policemen. As a young man he had won a number of competitions when, one day in Budapest, he noticed that a guy who couldn't skate for beans, but was highly accomplished at pratfalls, kept the crowd in an uproar. Quickly deciding that slapstick paid off better than mere skill, Trenkler went out and bought a pair of baggy pants. He studied music-hall comics...