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Imperial Symposium
Mr. Loeb "thinks that living in a Wright-designed house will be worth a little inconvenience" [TIME, July 1]. Why "little"? If it is any relation to the celebrated Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Mr. Loeb's bazink will be replete with inconveniences. . . .
The Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that...
Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes.
Trouble, of course, is relative. Britain still worried about Russian influence in Afghanistan, but her silence was a measure of the inflation in bad relations between the Empire and the imperial Reds.