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Payment Deferred. In Sendai, Japan, Gennosuke Ikeda was arrested after an auto salesman called on him to collect payment on a car, was served a cup of poisoned...
Married. Princess Atsuko, 21, third daughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Takamasa Ikeda, 25, well-to-do dairy farmer and son of the former Marquis Ikeda, who gave up his title after World War II; in Tokyo. The Princess' marriage to a commoner stripped her of an annual 650,000 yen ($1,800) royal allowance. The Emperor was in bed with a cold but the Empress, with 30 members of the royal family, attended the ancient and austere Shinto ceremony...
...Japanese doubted that Asahi would succeed. Only five months ago, when escaped War Criminal Shigeyoshi Ikeda had managed to elude all official efforts to recapture him, another Asahi task force tracked him down in less than a week at his hiding place on a remote island off southern Kyushu. This saturation system of covering the news (Asahi has a staff of 1,374 reporters, 4,066 other employees) is one of the reasons why yo-year-old Asahi (circ. 3,610,209) has an even bigger audience than the New York Daily News (circ. 2,254,644), the biggest paper...
Proclaimed Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda, one of Japan's few competent cabinet members, who had done the spadework with Joe Dodge: "Real political freedom cannot be hoped for where there is no economic independence. If we Japanese prefer to lie idly dependent on the help of foreign countries, we would be disgracing both our forefathers and our children...
...vaudeville gag told of a conceited counterfeiter who came to grief because he could not resist putting his own picture in place of George Washington's. Osaka's aging, ailing Counterfeiter Kanji Ikeda and his wife Yoshino were not vain, but they did arrange the serial numbers on their fake bills to read as messages to the son whose death in the war had turned their life to misery and despair. One of the Arabic numbers-797,423-read aloud in Japanese, meant: "Don't cry, honorable elder...