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...says Author Gibney, lies in understanding the "web" society of Japan. It is based not on anything resembling democratic fairness or Christian morality, but on a semifeudal system of responsibilities and obligations that drains the individuality from all. A poverty-stricken farmer must without question feed a tenth cousin he may hate. Not law, but the web, demands it, just as it lays down that suicide is preferable to capture by the enemy. Overseas in World War II the web was lifted, and Japanese soldiers went on a moral rampage. But when Hirohito perforce accepted the U.S. occupation, MacArthur...
...prefers to believe that Rosemary Clooney was created overnight by one record, an Armenian-American calypso called Come On-a My House ("I'm gonna give-a you everything . . ."). Come On-a My House did make the public Clooney-conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into...
Died. General Sir Reginald Wingate, 91, one of the last of Britain's empire builders who helped establish British rule in the Middle East at the end of the Victorian era; in Dunbar, Scotland. General Wingate (cousin of Major General Charles Orde Wingate, head of "Wingate's Raid ers," who was killed in Burma in World War II) commanded the Egyptian army from...
...prerogatives still left to the British Crown is the right to claim all sturgeon caught in British waters. It is a privilege few monarchs avail themselves of, for English sturgeon, unlike its zestier Russian cousin, is a flat and flavorless fish unfit for a Queen. For this reason, royalty's rights became a matter of mere second thought last week when Fisherman Fred Warman sailed into Grimsby with a 40-lb. sturgeon in his hold. Warman let the sturgeon go at auction along with the rest of his catch, to Fishmonger Oscar Cleve for 3s, 4¾d. (about...
Born: Paris, May 4, 1895, grandson of a rabbi, son of Jacob Justin Mayer, director of a dynamite company, and Marthe Rose Simone Dupont. A cousin by marriage of the famous Rothschild banking family, he has often represented Rothschild interests on company directorates...