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...Honolulu stopover, Akihito marched into a ship's lounge meeting with five dozen newsmen, read a formal statement of greeting in Japanese ("Here in Hawaii you have a veritable paradise of the Pacific ... a harmonious cosmopolitan community . . ."), then added extemporaneously in English: "I have heard so much about Hawaiian hospitality that I am sure I will enjoy my visit here." As the ship nosed in, his eye was especially taken by a quartet of hula dancers; he asked, and was assured that he would see more hula-hula before he left. Thousands of Hawaii's Japanese wept, shouted...
This composite of informality and propriety stems from Fair's cosmopolitan background. Born in South Africa 59 years ago, he was educated in Germany until growing nationalism and restraints became oppressive. Two weeks before the beginning of World War I, Fair left Berlin, arriving in Cambridge to study sanitary engineering at M.I.T. After graduate work at Harvard, he received a faculty appointment in 1927. In the following twenty years, Fair became Dean of the Engineering School and one of the top sanitary engineers in the world...
Ever since the end of World War II, Hearst's Cosmopolitan (66 years old last July) has been heading for trouble. From 1947, when it took in $5,880,770 in ads, it dropped last year to barely $2,700,000. Furthermore, it fell below (by 221,000) its guarantee to advertisers of 2,000,000 circulation, and recently it has been losing readers at the rate of 9,000 a month. To try to check the loss, Cosmo reshuffled its format, ran pictures on its cover instead of drawings, went after more sensational stories and articles...
Even in the steamy climate of Indo-China, the spark of music burns bright. For the better part of three decades, delicate, dark-haired Louise Nguyen Van Ty nursed hers in the environs of Saigon, finally coaxed it to the point where she thought it might ignite a cosmopolitan audience. This week, with Paris' noted Lamoureux Orchestra, she played the piano solo...
Columbia's admissions office is at present trying to solve a problem of unbalanced geographical distribution. The college does not have nearly so cosmopolitan a student body as most of its Ivy colleagues. While it is not attempting to duplicate the intensive selling and recruiting programs adopted by most of the Ivy League, Columbia would like to do something about its overly-large proportion--90 percent--of students from the "North Atlantic Area." Of this number, some 80 percent are from New York State, the remainder from New England, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania...