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Japan's late, illustrious Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), who extracted his realm from Medievalism and started the buzz-saw of Progress, was prayerfully approached last week by 5,000 neat, respectful Tokyo policemen at the Meiji Shrine They hoped he would help them thwart the assassination of an especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...
Since the courtroom doors were to be locked during the verdict formalities, the A. P. man in the courtroom carried a brief case containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...
...buzz of excitement stirred in the galleries as Senator Robinson, presumably fresh from communication with the White House, stalked into the chamber. Taking the floor for his final plea, Leader Robinson declared: "There has been unfair, unjust, unreasonable propaganda carried on during the course of this debate, carried on by agencies outside the Senate. Appeals have gone from end to end of the country to citizens to send telegrams to Senators to take a stand of opposition on this issue. More than 40,000 telegrams have been sent here in response to such requests, every one of them prompted...
...sudden, doctor, my ears begin to buzz. The room swirls around me. My eyes jerk and I can't keep them still. I reel, and if I don't catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
...Philadelphia, the week's biggest crowd (60,000) saw Navy's versatile Buzz Borries, checked when he tried to carry the ball, pass his team into position for two touchdowns and a field goal against Penn...