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Creaks & Cobwebs. Soon after their arrival, they learned that they would have to submit elaborate applications in sextodeciplicate for permission to go ahead on any deal, await clearance through an involved hierarchy which included Boeki Kodan (the Japanese Government's Public Trade Co.), Boeki Cho (its Board of Trade), and, finally, SCAP. Then they found-as they had been warned by SCAP (TIME, June 16)-that the quantity, quality, and variety of Japanese goods were small. But the Japanese were anxious to improve them...
...neat, new Tokyo Hotel and Hotel Teito, where the visiting traders were cordially welcomed by K. Nagai director of Boeki Cho, and A. B. Kram, chief of SCAP's foreign trade economic section, and handsomely housed, shabby little Japanese manufacturers eagerly crowded around businessmen, jotted down gripes about style and quality, hustled back to their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from...
With just five performances, modest Camilla Williams, now in her mid-twenties, has become the most talked-of postwar Cho-Cho-San. When she first sang the role last spring, critics were excited. Last week her performance was described with such superlatives as "rarely gifted," "remarkable," "superb...
...Besides Cho-Cho-San, last week she sang the leading role of Nedda in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, an opera she had never seen. This winter she will be soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As for ambitions to sing at the Met, chronically deaf to Negro voices, Camilla Williams says simply: "All opera singers aspire...
...display looked like a schoolgirl's botany project. The little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's outing in the country, were part of an official report from the China office of UNRRA. The pretty names stood for wild leaves and stems and roots that the peasants of Hunan province (where 5,000,000 face death) have lived on for 40 days...