Magyar Hírek, 1984 (37. évfolyam, 2-26. szám)
1984-11-10 / 23. szám
CHRONICLE Exhibitions on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Hungary The Museums of Hungary will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the country with art, ethnographic, and historic displays presenting the historical, social and artistic progress of the past four decades. An exhibition The Art of Forty Years will open in March at the Hungarian National Gallery. This will be a muster of outstanding works by painters, sculptors, and draughtsmen. Another exhibition that opens in April at the Ethnographic Museum will demonstrate the changes in the mode of life that have taken place over the past forty years, with the help of a wealth of objects, and photographs. A furthei exhibition will present unpublished press photographs of the past four decades. The Museum of Hungarian Worker’s Movement will stage an exhibition of 1944/45 posters, coins, banknotes, and stamps. The Historic Museum of Budapest will recall the reconstruction and four-decades of progress of the capital showing contemporary photographs, models, and other graphic material. Local history exhibitions will also open in several country museums to honour the anniversary of the Liberation. A coat of arms of the first Hungarian university Excavations to explore the remains of the first Hungarian university founded in the 14th century have been going on at Pécs for some time. Recently a coat of arms carved in stone was found. It includes symbols of the Holy See of Rome, and of the Anjou kings of Hungary could have been the official coat of arms of the university. This year's excavation season further enriched the details of a building complex that had been covered by the rubbish of centuries. The monumental building block of the university situated between the cathedral and the Northern wall of the fort revealed new details. The further excavation of the 19 meters long Great Hall, produced the most valuable find this year, the stone coat of arms. The coat of arms, carved finely in the rough stone remained undamaged. The position of hanging is clearly shown on it, and this suggests that it was hanging on a wall, perhaps on the wall of the Great Hall itself. International congress of pharmacists in Budapest Some 2.200 pharmacists attended the Budapest world congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation. The principal subject was the introduction and reception of new drugs, said Professor Károly Zalai, dean of the School of Pharmacy of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, the Hungarian Vice-President of FIP. The problems were discussed by German, British, Dutch. American pharmacists. During the. conference the Hungarian participants outlined the latest achievements of pharmaceutical research, drug production and the evaluation of medicines in Hungary. They described Hungarian pharmaceutical training and the network of pharmacists. “A new star in the Cygnus constellation” One of the many thousands of amateur astronomers in the country, Róbert Fridrich, a 14 years old boy, who lives in Bakonycsernye, made a notable discovery: he found a hitherto unseen star in the vicinity of the star known as TT Cygni, which periodically changes the its light power in the Cygnus constellation. The star which shines with a powerful light could not be observed in this position just a few days earlier, and it was not marked on the night sky charts either, as Róbert Fridrich found on checking. Fridrich reported his find to Meteor the journal of Hungarian amateur astronomers. The editor had the report checked, and it seems highly probable that the young amateur of Bakonycsernye discovered a nova in the sky. There is no report from the international centre suggesting that the nova was discovered earlier by someone else, therefore it is attributed to Róbert Fridrich, according to Attila Mizser, the editor. Travel agency founded by a co-operative farm The “Saturnus” travel agency established by the Szabadbattyán cooperative farm early in 1984 is a noteworthy example of the enterprising spirit and resilience of Hungarian co-operative farms. The agency already achieved good results over the short time of doing business, particularly in giving a new impetus to country travel. This year the agency booked accommodation and programmes in the pleasantly situated villages of the districts for 23,800 clients whose average occupancy was 5.1 days. The agency built two camping sites close to the Kisköre dam. It pays close attention to organizing holidays for children, and to meeting the requirements of senior citizens. Direct dialling telephone contacts with overseas countries Until recently the only overseas country whose subscribers could be reached by direct dialling from Hungary was the United States of America. The Hungarian Post Office made it known recently, that Australia, Canada, and the Caribbean countries can now also be reached by direct dialling. The innovation was made possible by the development of the technical equipment of the Hungarian telephone system, and it has already considerably increased telephone traffic with Canada and Australia. The glory game Károly Molnár: Miért vészit a győztes? (Why does the winner lose?) Népszava, Budapest, 1983. 104 pp -)- 16 pages of photographs. In Hungarian. Molnár’s brief book does not tell the story of Hungarian football, indeed it presumes a pretty good knowledge of it, of the kind acquired on the terraces, watching television, listening to the radio or reading the sporting press. In an adroit collage of snippets of interviews old and new, highlights from games, and behind the scenes anecdotes, judiciously larded with telling and apposite comment, Puskás, Hidegkúti, Bozsik, their team-mates and others, almost as well known in Hungary, who kicked a ball before and after, are evoked in a way that will prompt many old men on park benches to continue arguments they started when young, on the way home from a game, or after switching off the radio commentary. It is thus not written for those for whom Hungarian Scene is published, and not only because it is in Hungarian, nevertheless I unreservedly recommend it to them, as a present for fathers and uncles and yes, time marches on, for grandfathers as well which, what’s more, every schoolboy in America or Australia can well afford to pay for out of his pocket money. Reading Molnár reminded me that the glory game was played by the aranycsapat, the Golden Boys (Team), long before Tottenham won the double. What mattered was the way Puskás trapped the ball and used his lethal left foot, Kocsis’s head, and Bozsik’s and Hidegkuti’s tactical skills that stamped the pattern of a game with their personality, and not the result, except of course for the 6:3 victory at Wembley, and the defeat, by West Germany, in the final of the 1954 World Cup. That was a national disaster, accompanied by rumours of sellouts and stabs in the back, by wrecked flats, footballers going into hiding fearing the wrath of the populace. All the skills of Zoltán Vas, the great political fixer of the time, were enlisted to help quieten things. The authorities took a far more serious view of the possible effects on public morale than after a mining disaster or floods. What came first, the hen or the egg, the decline of football, or the drop in attendance figures? Could new Golden Boys have held up the move from the terraces to a working bee building one’s home, tending the garden of the weekend house, washing the car, and going for a drive? Their absence has certainly ensured that the inevitable shift took place with fewer regrets, felt or expressed. Puskás and Co are not the only ones without successors. Water-polo also had—more than one—Golden Team once upon a time. Where are the heirs of the Helsinki swimming girls, of the Hungarian swordsmen of yore, of Balczó who took on the world in the Modern Pentathlon? Given the very salutory shift in priorities from circuses to bread, in Hungary at least, their absence should perhaps not even be regretted in these autumn days of 1984. RUDOLF FISCHER RADIO HUNGARY IN ENGLISH The programmes are broadcast in English on Tuesdays and repeated on other days as presented below. From December 4th to December 10th The period of repression that followed the abortive War of Independence of 1848—49. Hungarian politicians in exile. Lajos Kossuth the leader of the Revolution rallied support in Britain and in the USA for Hungary’s cause. Kossuth in the Italian city of Turin. Literature during the period including verse by János Arany the nation’s leading poet and Mihály Tompa. From December 11th to December 17th Imre Madách and his major work The Tragedy of Man. Madách’s life, works and philosophy and contemporary reality. The career of Madách’s principal play on the Hungarian stage and abroad and its influence. From December 18th to December 24th A portrait from the gallery of great Hungarians of yesterday: Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky. His ancestors, family and early life in southern Hungary. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky coming out into opposition with “official Hungary” well under way to sell out the country to Hitler. His activities during the Second World War and repeated calls for national unity and resistance against the German invaders. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky’s tragedy in the last but one stage of the war. From December 25th to December 31st The process leading to the Compromise of 1867. The engineer of the Compromise: Ferenc Deák, the “wise man” of Hungary: The Austro— Hungarian Monarchy. Each instalment is broadcast five times during the week. The programme is transmitted first every Tuesday at 19.00 tor 3 p.m. North American Eastern Standard Time). It is then repeated four times according to the following sequence: —every Wednesday at 01.30 GMT (or 9.30 p.m. North American Eastern Standard Time); —every Friday at 19.00 GMT (or 3 p.m. North American Eastern Standard Time); —every Saturday at 01.30 GMT (or 9.30 p.m. North American Eastern Standard Time) and —every Monday at 04.00 GMT (or Sunday midnight North American Eastern Standard Time). The programmes on Tuesdays and the four repeats on the days listed above are transmitted on short wave on the 25, 31, 41 and 49 metre bands, that is, on 11910, 9655. 9585 and 6110 kHz, respectively. For further information or details please write to The Editors of Hungary’s History Serial c/o Szülőföldünk Magyar Rádió Budapest 1800 Hungary 31
