Word: budapests
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...Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents are brought to Manhattan by the pursers of British liners, there handed to the British consulate...
Sirs: . . . Several clays after you published your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
...Budapest...
...Philadelphians need take alarm. In progress was the National Table Tennis Tournament on twelve tables, under green-shaded lamps, surrounded by the flags of the four nations represented by contestants. After three days of agitation in the ballroom, the tournament.ended as table-tennis experts had predicted: Viktor Barna of Budapest, five times world champion, won the men's title. Ruth Hughes Aarons won the women's. Together they took the mixed doubles title and, to make her performance perfect, Rath Aarons also shared the women's doubles championship. If sleek little Viktor Barna is the Tilden...
...uses the scorn ful abbreviation ''P.P." when forced to refer to it. In Europe the game has more prestige than it enjoys in the U. S. Five thousand spectators watched Miss Aarons win the world's championship. Crowds almost as large cheered her in London. Vienna, Budapest. Although the best Philadelphia could muster was a picayune 500 for the final, Champion Aarons thinks the game has a future in the U. S., set out, after last week's tournament, on a barnstorming tour to prove...