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...swung in to the curb in front of a schoolhouse. Out stepped Mr. Inouye. Out from the shadow of a doorway stepped a thin little fellow in a tattered kimono and dirty black felt hat to send- Blam! Blam! Blam!-three bullets into the left breast of Junnosuke Inouye. The fellow in the tattered kimono was quickly arrested. His name was Sei Konuma, 22, and he came from the country. With sirens screaming, police whisked Mr. Inouye to the Imperial University Hospital where in a few minutes he died. At the hospital his wife, pale and dry-eyed, said...
...still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces a doorway; he cannot write unless he can look up and see an exit. His writing provides him a mental exit. These Restless Heads, concerned with Poictesme only in introspect, is his first book written over the decapitated signature Branch Cabell...
Beeman Barrett was eating a chop with spinach. His back was to the door, and the hotel forbids paging in its dining room. For an hour and a half he continued to eat slowly while bellboys gesticulated from the doorway and the lobby swarmed with buzzing bees. Finally one found its way to its master, lit on his nose. Beeman Barrett quietly put it in his pocket, finished his coffee, went on a beehunt. Amid cheers he retrieved half. The rest are still at large...
...Christ in Glory" is depicted on the capital at the left of the doorway. Sitting within a mandorla supported by the four attributes of the apostles, the lion, ox, eagle, and angel, Christ raises both hands in benediction. The two apostles on the left face of the capital carry the resurrection cross, while the two disciples are on the right face...
...football Epicurean bites, this afternoon's Texas game is surely a good example. For one reason, due to the depression and other causes, a goodly number of the Harvard football watchers were forced to spend last Saturday afternoon not in the cool and windy Stadium, but in the doorway of some radio shop listening to the strident voices of announcern of the West Point game. There is no doubt that the voices in their natural state caused silvery echoes to gift through the confines of the announcerial box. Amplified, refrequenced, hoarsed, and allowed to join the Freshmen in making...