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...farmer's son with only a sixth-grade education, Osano has shown an uncanny ability to foresee and exploit opportunities. Wounded in China and discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided...
Story Machine. Cheever is not a writer with a public personality to flourish and exploit, such as Hemingway or Norman Mailer. He has appeared...
...Mann's reported remarks to the assembled U.S. ambassadors, does not depend upon popular approval in Latin America. Neither does it attract popular approval, which the U.S. must have to champion democratic revolution as an alternative to Castro's kind. Therefore, the Administration should be especially careful to exploit every opportunity for attracting public support and conciliating the diplomats it will have to handle roughly at other tmes...
...unbelievably difficult role), his constant movements around the stage may be more at fault than his disconcerting effiminacy. Lloyd Battista does some quite impressive acting as the son, but he is occasionally forced into ridiculous acrobatics in his nervous pacing of the stage. Above all, Murray fails to exploit the dramatic possibilities of the boy's climactic suicide. In some productions, the boy terrorizes the cast and family with his pistol while shrinking like a crazed beast from his sister's murder; Murray hides him behind a set and assumes a loud band will serve as well. The effect...
Though Buhlie's exploit caused something of an uproar at Ford, the pictures certainly proved that the Mustang, which goes into mass production this week at Ford's River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, is indeed handsome. It has a rectangular, Ferrari-like front grille and a low, racy silhouette, but its most attractive feature is probably its price-less than $2,500. At any rate, Buhlie was not letting the matter disrupt his own plans. A few days after he unmasked the Mustang, he and Barbara Monroe Posselius, 18, were married in Grosse Pointe. The happy couple...