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Very Healing Guy. The man his friends call Ock is 6 ft. 1½ in. of unassuming reticence. He has a shy smile that creeps out from under an almost constant frown. He walks slowly, with gangling dignity, like a freshman playing a Roman emperor. In a business where hysteria is honorable and neuroticism normal, he seems completely untemperamental. Baffled by normalcy as heathen are baffled by saintliness, show people from Sardi's to Giro's see him in an unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking...
...Queens, N.Y., the Archduke Franz Josef, 42-year-old grandnephew of Austria's late Emperor, paid a $25 fine in traffic court (for driving with bright lights in a dull-light zone)-after a bystander kindly lent...
...those brave days, Bao Dai (meaning: The Great Protection) was hereditary emperor of the Annamites in French Indo-China. But in August of 1945 he ran into a bird too big for him-Communist Ho Chih-minh. Elected President of the new Viet Nam Republic, Ho Chih-minh arranged for Bao Dai's prompt abdication, kept him prisoner for some months and then packed him off to China. Since then, the Great Protection has spent his time roaring about Hong Kong on a motorcycle and awaiting a "summons from the Annamite people...
...among their own people who spread "rumors" of Japan's surrender (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Merchants who told the truth were boycotted; at least 14 "rumor spreaders" were said to have been murdered. Even letters from home were denounced as a Yankee trick. Some stubbornly believed that the Emperor of Japan would soon become Emperor of the world. Meanwhile, Sao Paulo swindlers cleaned up selling passage on non-existent ships to new non-existent Japanese colonies...
Finally, at a meeting in the interior, a man rose in the audience to say: "You must tell them absolutely clearly that Japan lost the war with unconditional surrender, by order of the Emperor." Another voice in the audience suggested that it would be dangerous, at which a dignified patriarch rose to announce in a commanding voice: "There is no danger." Father Lassalle told them. Absolute silence followed...