Milestones, Aug. 14, 1950

Born. To Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge), 46, onetime Prime Minister of Hungary, who resigned (May 1947) after the Communists seized power, became a Virginia dairy farmer, and Julia Nagy, 43: their fourth and fifth children, twin daughters; in Arlington, Va. Names: Mary Susan and Sophia Katherine.

Died. Saly Mayer, 68, Swiss lace manufacturer credited with saving some 200,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks...

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