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...cooked for Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese commander, told the story: on the night of June 21 he was ordered to prepare a No. 1 dinner for an important occasion. This he served at 10 o'clock to Ushijima and his chief of staff, Lieut. General Isamu Cho. Five hours later the cook was told that the ceremony was about to occur. Forty minutes after that Ushijima and Cho appeared, wearing dress uniform with medals, their boots highly polished...
...Generals opened their blouses, unbuckled their belts. Ushijima leaned forward and with both hands pressed the blade against his belly. One of his adjutants did not wait for the knife to plunge deep. With his razor-sharp saber he lopped off his superior's head. General Cho leaned forward against his blade. The adjutant swung again. Orderlies took the bodies away...
...pretty 28-year-old mother was a cho rus dancer who had been alcoholic for about ten years." The little boy passed most of his time with his mother "including the afternoons and evenings she spent in the back room of the neighborhood bar. He demanded a sip of beer from each glass. . . . He would go from customer to customer asking for sips and begging for nickels to play Margie in the jukebox (Margie was his mother's name)." His trouble, according to the doctor: an oedipus complex which caused him to imitate his mother. He forgot all about...
...Francisco. Born into a theatrical family, she chose to be a schoolma'am, was teaching kindergarten in San Francisco in 1894 when she made her stage debut with a local company in which her mother acted. She never returned to teaching. Her first major hit was as Cho-Cho-San in Madame Butterfly in 1900. As Cigarette in Under Two Flags (1901), as the breezily beautiful Girl of The Girl of the Golden West (1905), her popularity hit tops. She retired in 1926, returned to the stage briefly in 1933 in The Lake, with Katharine Hepburn. She was married...
...does the most brooding and the heaviest word-slinging about what he writes. Last week Cleveland heard the first complete performance of his Folk-Song Symphony for orchestra and chorus, which he wrote "to bring about a cultural cooperation and understanding between the highschool, college and community cho ruses of our cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community." Composer Harris wrote his symphony last winter, had part of it performed and broadcast at an Eastman festival in Rochester last spring. Cleveland got first crack at the whole work because Artur Rodzinski, conductor...