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Death Revealed. Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 41, son of the late Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Japan's Premier during 1937-39 and 1940-41; of Bright's disease on Oct. 29; in a Russian prison camp at Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow. Princeton exposed Prince Konoye (he captained the university's 1937-38 golf team, flunked out in his senior year) was captured in Manchuria (1945) while serving as a lieutenant, in 1951 was socked with a 25-year sentence for "aiding capitalism." Russia did not bother to inform Japan of his death, allowed news to leak out last...
...mirror." Politicians say he has a "chivalrous" mind, which merely means he is a polite straddler. He was once a melancholy Marxist, and amused himself by translating Oscar Wilde. Five years ago it was said that he was a Liberal because he sent his golf-playing son Fumitaka ("Butch") to Princeton. But two years ago he talked fascist: said he wanted to see Chiang Kai-shek's head roll in a basket...
Called to the colors was Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye. Son of able Prince Konoye, "Butch" captained Princeton's 1937-38 golf team, flunked completely and cheerfully out of college, became dean of a Japanese college in Shanghai. He will serve as a private...
When fun-loving, beer-bibbing, golf-playing Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 24, flunked out of Princeton (TIME, March 6), he expected to get what-for from his father, former Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The family's "face" was saved when Butch was appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tung-wen College in Shanghai's French Concession. Last week, with flying colors, Butch passed an examination given by a conscription board and was admitted to the Japanese army...
Slated to graduate last June from Princeton University, Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, son of Japan's former Premier, failed to get enough passing marks to get his degree. Last week news came to the U. S. that Butch Konoye had been appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tungwen College in Shanghai's French Concession...