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In Japan, 38-year-old Hanama Tasaki runs a ham and bacon business by day, a nightclub after sundown. He also writes novels. Hawaiian-born, U.S.-educated and a veteran of the Japanese army, he made his U.S. fiction debut in 1950 with Long the Imperial Way, a ploddingly serious...
Equally shocking to later expurgators. e.g., Thomas Bowdler, were Gibbon's racy reflections on imperial sex life. Of the Empress Theodora he wrote: "After exhausting the arts of sensual pleasure she most ungratefully murmured against the parsimony of Nature," adding in a footnote, "She wished for a fourth altar...
A short, chunky man with a crew haircut and the face of an Oriental John Garfield walked into butter-colored Gia-Long Palace in Saigon one morning last week and handed to Premier Tran Van Huu a letter bearing the imperial seal of Bao Dai. The letter bluntly deposed Huu...
The main change in Mike himself is that he may now be classed as a businessman. Aside from occasional weekends with Gloria at the Zanucks' in Palm Springs, he leads a quiet life. His credit is beyond question. He works hard. "I'm tired," he remarked not long...
For four days, talk of modern medicine was barred from Paris' Maison de la Médecine. The squat hall, across the square from Napoleon's tomb, was taken over by the latter-day devotees of a "healing" art older than Western civilization itself: the International Society of...