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Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason...
...colorful life whose flamboyant tones were muted only slightly by the black robes of the Roman Catholic priesthood, fat, bullet-headed Josef Tiso had successively sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said...
Carpenter Josef Luckasti, 55: "I am lost and penniless after 25 years in exile [from Russia]. I will return, and I hope to find work...
...crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
...while he peddled pins & needles and was a trolley car conductor in Philadelphia. The words "S. Hurok presents . . ." first appeared outside the huge (6,000 capacity) New York Hippodrome in 1916. Hurok advertised that the King and Queen of the Belgians would attend a symphony concert with pianist Josef Lhevinne. The flag-draped royal box was empty-but Hurok took...