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...story ofEmpress Haruko, Schwartz’s fictionalizedvision of Empress Michiko. The basicplot is one that’s been told over andover in other forms: exceptional youngwoman confronts the world, falters atfirst, but eventually finds herself. In thisversion, Haruko is a privileged but normalgirl growing up in Tokyo duringWorld War II. (As Schwartz writes withcharacteristic limpness, “One might saythat my childhood insularity was a formof hereditary protection in whose shade,like a pale, delicate mushroom, I grew.”)She excels at sports, and one fateful daymeets and beats the Crown Prince in agame...
...Bolster Bar preceded the BartSimpson-famed Butterfinger. Upon the 1938launching of the Skybar, "a candy box in a bar,"skywriters and low-flying planes with trailingbanner-advertisements circled most of theNortheast. Necco also erected an enormous Skybarbillboard in Times Square, complete with enoughflashing lights to rival the Coke sign. DuringWorld War II, energy restrictions prevented thelighting of the billboard, and it made New YorkTimes headlines the day it was turned back...
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