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...past four years a whole school of vigorous, militant, aggressive young carp have appropriated the waters of Japanese politics. And none outshines whiskey-drinking, golf-playing, Cadillac-driving Hirosi Saito. Young Carp Saito, still only 48, came into the world the son of an untitled, inconspicuous translator of English at the Japanese Foreign Office.* He leaped his first waterfall when he landed in the Peers' College. There he dovetailed into a group of nationalistic-minded students who are now Japan's bright young leaders in the fighting services and Foreign Office, many holding posts today that were reserved...
...Cabineteer. Today Saito has his eye more fixedly on Franklin Roosevelt than ever. He knows that President Roosevelt's new Navy is the most potent afloat, that it is still abuilding. He knows that Washington wiseacres see this Navy as a net to prevent the Japanese carp from becoming so exuberant as to try an Eastward leap. Hirosi Saito's job is to convince the man in the White House that, at any rate, the carp will not permit the net to roil his own Asiatic waters...
Last week three University of Chicago doctors announced that they had discovered a cheaper and quicker method of certifying pregnancy. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer and Arthur Herman Klawans use a little carp-like fish which costs only 30?. Within 24 hours after a female bitterling is placed in a quart of fresh water, which also contains two teaspoonfuls of urine from a pregnant woman, there grows out from the belly of the bitterling a long tubular appendage, called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon...
Sirs: ... If you insist upon likening Warren William's profile to a fish, why pick out a carp [TIME, Sept. 3]? A pickerel, which has been glorified by the automobile manufacturers in the last two years, would have served much better. Or a trout! Or a bass! Warren, born and reared in the game fish region of Northern Minnesota, could hardly look like a carp . . . as there are few of this undesirable species in Northern Minnesota's sky-blue waters. . . . Warren is acquainted only with the better class of fish- real finny beauties...
...picture which is full of fish makes a particularly appropriate vehicle for Warren William's debut as detective. His likeness to John Barrymore is proverbial but he really looks more like a carp. Born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minn., he went to France during the War, resumed his career as actor when he returned. He appeared in 26 stage failures, four successes. Last of the four was Vinegar Tree (1930) which got him a cinema contract. Now one of the busiest male stars in Hollywood, he is famed for his profile and his versatility. He has performed in farce...