New York Minute

Mitchell studied at the University of North Carolina without graduating and came to New York in 1929, at the age of twenty-one. Kunkel traces the young exile’s rapid rise from copy boy on the New York World to reporter on the Herald Tribune and feature writer on The World Telegram. In 1933 St. Clair McKelway, the managing editor of the eight-year-old New Yorker, noticed Mitchell’s newspaper work and invited him to write for the magazine; in 1938 the editor, Harold Ross, hired him. In 1931 Mitchell married a lovely woman of Scandinavian background named Therese Jacobson, a fellow reporter, who left journalism to become a fine though largely unknown portrait and street photographer. She and Mitchell lived in a small apartment in Greenwich Village and raised6 Responses to “Arguing with Idiots: Jean-François Lisée”

July 30, 1987
Hungary Seeks Way to Cut High Suicide Rate
By HENRY KAMM, Special to the New York Times

BUDAPEST, July 29— Worried by the highest recorded suicide rate in the world, the Hungarian Government is encouraging an extensive study of its causes to seek ways of prevention.

In the process, the Goverment has gradually lifted the taboo that until the early 1980’s prevented public discussion of the subject.

»Nearly 5,000 persons commit suicide in Hungary in a year, » said Dr. Bela Buda, a psychiatrist who heads a major research project in which several institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have joined forces. »Perhaps as many as 50,000 try, » Dr. Buda said.

Hungary’s suicide rate is 48 per 100,000 inhabitants. The comparable American