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...curt, bristling National Hero whom Japanese crowds call adoringly "Our Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...
...Tahiti. A transoceanic treasure hunt is a new sort of theme for Author Priestley but it is well suited to his fondness for sketching minor characters. Faraway is as full of them as a suburban telephone directory. William Dursley has three traveling companions: a retired naval officer who is curt and frosty; a bouncing, beaming Lancashireman named Ramsbottom; a U. S. girl of the type who "lets one down." He is bothered by a mysterious South American named Garsuvin, by a chorus of wiggling Tahitian girls, by a Hollywood cinema producer, by a London tycoon who takes William Dursley...
Sirs: TIME, clear, curt, hardly complete, failed to mention possibly the most dramatic struggle in the life of John J. McGraw (TIME, June 13)- his battle against a nickname. Young and irascible Third Baseman McGraw was known as "Muggsy" in Baltimore, gloried in the name. As he grew older, fatter, the name seemed undignified. No longer a head-puncher, save in sundry clubs where he was reputed to have lost more fights than an English heavyweight, John McGraw objected to rowdy publicity, fought strenuously for years and finally had the offensive appellation discarded first by the New York and then...
Talkative, easygoing, amiable Premier Herriot thus was seen to have expanded the Cabinet to 18 portfolios, whereas his curt, nervous, kinetic predecessor Andre Tardieu compressed the previous Cabinet to 13 (TIME, March 7). Probably most Frenchmen are vaguely pleased by the change. They nicknamed M. Tardieu somewhat contemptuously L'Americain, mistrusted his go-getting methods, his efficiency scheme of rolling the Ministries of War. Navy and Air into one Ministry of Defense...
...hobbies are fishing and hunting on his Catskill estate. He has three sons, Reinhold, Curt and Julius. One is in the sales department, another in the manufacturing, a third handling finances. They were trained on sheep ranches, in mills abroad, in banks. In memory of a fourth son he established the Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation in 1922. It lends and gives money to apt children of employes. It helps families in sickness, runs a night school for employes and their families. Despite this paternalism, and despite the fact that many Forstmann workers are more skilled, hence higher-paid, than...