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...doubtless right. Except for one 17-month hiatus when a Socialist coalition held power (1947-48), the wily old political juggler has run Japan since a few months after the surrender. Under the U.S. occupation, he was a man of tough but resilient rubber: since sovereignty, he has been a man of iron. Critics call him malicious, contemptuous, autocratic. Even his admirers sometimes agree-adding, however, that he can be witty, urbane and charming. Recently, a top U.S. diplomat was asked: "Whom do you regard as the five most influential men in Japan?" The answer: "Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida...
...Paris' Olympia music hall, vaudeville was in full flower. There were acrobats, unicyclists, a juggler, Mexican guitarists. But the attraction that filled the 2,000-seat house last week was strictly jazz, in the venerable person of Sidney Bechet, 57, Paris' resident jazz professor and one of the city's most famed citizens...
Unhappily, the climactic court-martial scene leaves something to be desired. The buildup is too rapid, the characters are too little drawn out by the suction of suspense that is too soon released. Nevertheless, the scene is charged with drama, effectively paced by Director Edward (The Juggler) Dmytryk, and well played. The massive closeup of Queeg in disintegration is almost as pitiful and terrifying as it was meant...
...wanderings. He came to Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella, whose image in bridal white or sensual black hovered across the skies of his paintings for years...
Wall Street v. New England. The battle was over control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The man Buck Dumaine wanted to "give it to" was Patrick B. McGinnis, the Wall Street railroad juggler who recently collided with the ICC over his expense accounts while boss of the Norfolk Southern (TIME, Feb. 22). In 1948 McGinnis helped old Frederic Dumaine grab control of the New Haven, bought 75,000 shares of stock, largely for clients. But now McGinnis doesn't like the way Buck Dumaine runs the road, and is waging a proxy fight to take over...