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...Hungarian squad, dark, lithe and husky, was cordially received. Escorted by a couple of stocky "assistant trainers" who were unmistakably Iron Curtain cops and by Hungary's Vice Minister for Sport Gustav Sebec. the players were taken to a West End show for their first night in London. The object, said Vice Minister Sebec. was "to improve our English." He chose a revue called Pardon My French, advertised as "A Bust and Belly Epic . . . Girls with Sequins and Girls Without." ' Planned Initiative. Next day the Hungarians formally and proudly introduced their stars: shock-haired Joseph Bozsik...
London Art Dealer Gustav Delbanco picked up his telephone one day last week, heard a man's voice: "If you go to Room 24 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, you will find something." Delbanco promptly dispatched a messenger, who found something all right- the small (13-in.) Rodin bronze, Psyche, which was stolen four months ago. Tucked under the figurine was an envelope containing a letter and a ten-shilling note ($1.40). The letter started with some lines from W. B. Yeats's The Living Beauty...
...last week Huett felt he was well on his way to winning his education. But for business reasons, he refuses to say exactly how much he has earned. When anyone asks him that, he holds out his coin box, smiles, and quotes a line from Gustav Schwab: "The springs of poetry give you much...
Last week Munich was getting a new church to replace the old Neo-Renaissance building, but it was not the kind most churchgoers expected. For their design, the Lutherans had turned to Architect Gustav Gsaenger, 53, asked him for something that would cost no more than to rebuild the old church, yet would hold twice as large a congregation. Architect Gsaenger's proposal: a stark, clean-lined, oblong structure, to hold 1,000 worshipers and cost only 2,500,000 marks (about $595,000). Gsaenger's church has no traditional spire, no cruciform nave. Instead, it will have...
...Pittsburgh Symphony led the parade. Under the baton of William Steinberg, and with Violinist Isaac Stern as soloist, the up & coming Pittsburgh gave a high-spirited performance featuring Gustav Mahler's First Symphony and Modernist Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto. Listeners and critics were especially impressed by the orchestra's brilliance and enthusiasm...