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...Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living are absolved...
...Lamaism's most important "Living Buddha...
...released. Promptly, he loosed a torrent of postcards, letters, and speeches. The Japanese had won the war, he claimed. He hoped to guide the Japanese in Hawaii, which, he said, the Jap fleet was "watching," back into the path of Soto righteousness. He exhorted: "You should be, like Lord Buddha, strong and ruling the universe as the most superior ones...
Black Hole. As a writer of fiercely topical satire for a windblown medium, Allen has acquired, in spite of his protests, considerable stature. His work has an angry, big-city clank, a splashy neon idiom and a sort of 16-cylinder poetry. Like a well-barbered, satiric Buddha, he squats in his forest of steel-&-concrete trees, grinning them such a grin as they have seldom had to bear. It is certainly a grin as wide as Shaw's, if less thoughtful-and quite as bitter as Swift's, if less profound...
Double Duty. Tassmen are expected to learn the language of the country where they work, ordinarily go out for three years at a time. In London, bespectacled Buddha-like Tass Chief Alexander Sverlov has a staff of 25 putting out the Soviet Monitor, an English-language paper that is free for all who want it. In Vienna where its news and pictures are also free Tassmen have been a little piqued because Austrian editors prefer to pay for fresher A.P., U.P. or Reuter news...