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Smiting the wicked became a habit. During World War II, he wrote a letter warning Japanese Emperor Hirohito: "Surrender or be totally annihilated and become extinct." Three months later the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. As Father Divine put it: "Things just don't happen. Things happen just...
Ever since U.S. B-29 bombers leveled Emperor Hirohito's palatial quarters within Tokyo's moat-encircled imperial compound in May 1945, the imperial family has made do with modest quarters, first the palace air-raid shelter and, since 1961, a 15-room house in the palace compound. Five years ago it was decided that proper settings for the Emperor's ceremonial occasions could no longer be delayed. The architect picked for the honor of designing the Emperor's $25.5 million palace: Junzo Yoshimura, now 56, a professor in Tokyo's University of Fine Arts...
...elderly visitors, a color scheme (snow white and green) to please the Empress, room for horohiki (ancient Imperial horsemanship), polo, garden parties, banquets, and the crowds that gather to greet the Emperor on his birthday and New Year's. In short, the finest building ever to grace Hirohito's reign...
...serial crawls with spies, but not everyday ones: these are "shifty eyed Japs," master-minded by sinister, moustachioed Dr. Dacquar (played by J. Carroll Naish, the only actor whose name I recognized). Dacquar takes orders only from "Hirohito, Heavenly Ruler and Prince of the Rising Sun," and has set up headquarters for the treacherous "Legion of the New Order" deep in the bowels of a Chamber of Horrors. The fun house, which contains exhibits as subtle as four fierce and leering Japanese soldiers pointing bayonets at a beautiful white girl, is the only occupied building in "Little Tokyo, part...
...while away their idle hours, dispensing free milk and Ovaltine to the strains of a red-hot jazz combo. In the dining rooms, 300 chefs labored mightily to prepare 490,000 meals, whomping up everything from scones to sukiyaki for their charges. And there, among the hustling waiters, was Hirohito's grandson, who signed on for $1.95 a day. It was all too much for a pair of Australian girl swimmers; in three days they gained six pounds apiece, and then their coach started counting the calories...