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All was peaceful in Atami one afternoon last week. Visitors were pausing along the white Tokyo road notched in the pine-covered sea cliffs to take in the view. Aiko Nagai, a plump geisha, was landscaping her elaborate hairdo in preparation for the evening's entertainment. Heiji Tomioka, sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Of Men & Matches | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Sake Merchant Tomioka returned from fire fighting to find his own house burned down, his eight children homeless. Next day he started work on a new house. "By nightfall we'll have it up," he said. "I have no money left, but we can get supplies on credit and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Of Men & Matches | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Betty carries the show with such riotous energy and eagerness to please that she threatens to carry it too far. She plunges into her first two numbers like a bronco out of a rodeo pen, filling the screen with so much motion that it is hard to listen for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Young Mary Pomfret and Philip Weatherby are office workers who are supposed to be in love but court each other as if they were filling out government forms. Instead of making love, they gossip about their scandalous parents, Widower Pomfret and Widow Weatherby, who had a torrid affair years back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crabbed Youth | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Sheep & Goats. A Cornish cliff collapses on top of a seaside resort hotel, squashing everybody but those lucky enough to be away on a picnic. Actually, according to Author Kennedy, the picnickers were more than just lucky: God has been separating the sheep from the goats before blasting that particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stravinsky, Here I Come! | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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