Word: chichibu
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...Japanese-language reporter. In some of the freshest pages of the book, our unlikely hero tells us about his initiation into the seamy, tough-guy Japan beneath the public courtesies, a racy world filled with reporters given names like Chuckles and Googly. He digs up details in "the Chichibu Snack-mama murder case." He sleeps with a yakuza's moll who has a dragon tattoo on her back...
Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
...Emperor's sister-in-law, Princess Chichibu, and 200 other Japanese and foreign dignitaries attended I.C.U.'s formal dedication ceremonies. Said I.C.U.'s first president, Zoologist Hachiro Yuasa, a third-generation Japanese Christian: "International Christian University is fundamentally a university of tomorrow . . . born out of the tragedies of war and dedicated to the proposition that truth and truth alone shall make men and nations free." Requirements for faculty members, as set by President Yuasa: firm scholarship and "dynamic" Christianity...
...Tokyo, Prince Chichibu, younger brother of the Emperor, was named honorary chairman last July of an association to raise money for a memorial to Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur. Last week the newspaper Yomiuri reported the campaign results to date. Expenses: $2,962. Funds raised...
Pleased as punch with his gift copy of The Life and Times of the Shmoo and an assortment of shmoo toys, Emperor Hirohito's brother, Prince Chichibu, sat right down and wrote Cartoonist Al Capp a little thank-you note: "I, as a shmoo fan, was awfully delighted at seeing various activities of shmoo and its actual figure. The kigmy, I think, is too marvelous and the most useful creature in our human society . . . Long Live Li'l Abner...