Word: budapests
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...make a gesture toward Europe. Franklin Roosevelt, alone in his study, pondered sending a personal message (composed for him during the afternoon by Assistant Secretary of State Berle and Chief of European Affairs Moffat), to Adolf Hitler and President Benes, copies to go to London, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest. When he had decided he sent for Secretaries Hull and Welles. They sent for 14 correspondents, who arrived in pajamas and bedslippers under their topcoats, to receive the text of President Roosevelt's world gesture...
...tennists this summer, could extend Defending Champion Donald Budge and become the first player to take a set from him. Even that was disappointing. Budge annihilated Wood, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in a match almost as unexciting as the other semi-final in which his doubles partner, Budapest-born Gene Mako, unseeded because of insufficient singles play, pricked the big Bromwich bubble, 6-3, 7-5. 6-4. For the first time since the Tilden-Hunter final in 1929, a pair of U. S. doubles champions faced one another for the Singles championship...
...International Psychotherapy Congress at Oxford, England, 43-year-old Hypnotist Francis Völgyesi of Budapest, who has put to sleep all the monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...
Died. Count László Széchényi, 59, one-time (1922-33) Hungarian Minister to the U. S., husband of Gladys Vanderbilt; of a heart attack; in a Budapest sanatorium...
...Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit pro-Hitler Cardinal Innitzer in Hitler's Vienna, anti-Fascist Cardinal Verdier, of Paris, to attend a demonstration in his honor in democratic Czechoslovakia's Prague...