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Hirohito won admiring attention from the Nippon Times, which disclosed to its readers that the emperor was one of the few men in the world who can take a fan between his toes and fan himself. What is more, pursued the Times, "he is able to perform this stunt while swimming...
...Emperor he took private anatomy lessons from Court Physician Jean Nicolas Corvisart, but the lessons made him feel ill; often he asked doctors for some assurance that disease could not be inherited. On St. Helena, a month before his death, he returned to questions about the anatomy and physiology of the stomach. As he was dying, the hidden fear erupted in his delirium: "My father . . . the pylorus ... I have known it for a long time...
...islands, huge gongs sounded 108 times-each stroke to counter one human evil in the new year (which was a conservative estimate). The year thus heralded was called the year of Ne (the Mouse)-traditionally a year of activity, humility, but also of the plenty for which all yearned. Emperor Hirohito offered his subjects two New Year's poems, written by himself. One advised: "Emulate the strength of the pine trees of the seashore, which stand the fierce sea breezes of the four seasons...
...When an Emperor he was made...
Died. Count Antal Sigray, 68, longtime campaigner for the restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, wartime concentration camp prisoner of the Nazis; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Jailed briefly in 1921 after a Graustarkian attempt to restore Emperor Charles to the throne, the count preserved the opera bouffe flavor of the episode by challenging government leaders who had "slandered" him while he was in prison (no one accepted the challenge...