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...riding on buses all day and singing all night." He is a Catholic, like Sinatra and Crosby, but is less apt to break into Ave Maria. Something like the new nonsense song, One-zy, Two-zy I Love You-zy, is more his style. He sometimes sings Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life to win the old folks, but in general he's a bobby-soxer's man, who gets screamed at. Says he: "If you don't like it you wouldn't be human. If they stopped you'd wonder what the hell happened...
...Hindu had drawn much more closely together in the last few months-but only in their opposition to the British Raj. On the issue of Pakistan -the Moslem demand for a separate state in north India-the Congress party and the Moslem League were still poles apart. Mahomed AH Jinnah, head of the Moslem League, threatened civil war for Pakistan...
...Yokohama. Past officials and workers standing at attention with Sunday smiles, he pattered like a not-quite-recuperated invalid treading on eggshells. While functionaries droned through tedious reports, Hirohito clasped and unclasped his hands, shifted from foot to foot, blinked and nodded. When it was all over, he sighed, "Ah so." Then His Majesty wandered like a scared mouse through the maze of plant wreckage. Before one of the workers, lined up to get their first imperial glimpse, he paused nervously. "How long have you been working here?" "Fifteen years." "Ah so," said the Emperor. "So desu" ("That...
...again. At a home for war sufferers he was visibly moved as he guided his pointed tan shoes from dingy room to dingy room. He spotted a soldier with a wooden leg, addressed the man's wife: "Where did your husband get wounded?" "The Philippines," answered the woman. "Ah so," said the Emperor. "In the Philippines. Ah so. You have children. I'm sorry. This place is rather cold. But it will become warmer. I hope you will cheer up." The woman bawled. Embarrassed, Hirohito darted...
...University of British Columbia at Vancouver owes much of its existence to the sis-boom-ah of its galumphing student body. In 1922, fed up with government delays in providing permanent buildings, undergraduates marched eight miles to a wooded headland overlooking Howe Sound, heaved boulders into a cairn and started one of the handsomest campuses in North America. In subsequent years they have built a gymnasium, a playing field and stadium, a recreation hall...