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They saw two U. S. youngsters beat the whizzing foreign skiers at their own game. Dartmouth's great Dick Durrance sped down the two-and-a-half-mile Mt. Hood downhill course, ''Hara-kiri Hill," in 3:55.3; raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the Ski Bowl on neighboring Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain in 2:44.6 for the best combined score of all, open or amateur. By far the best of the women in the combined score was graceful, 26-year-old Betty Woolsey of Connecticut, captain of the women's team...
...literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual hara-kiri found him there." Again, in 1936, when Westbrook Pegler discovered Mr. Mencken (who had stumped against Harding, Coolidge, Smith, Hoover & Roosevelt) ". . . staggering down the street under the unwieldy weight of an enormous Landon banner, a sunflower in his lapel as big as a four-passenger omelette," the New Republic elegized...
Thank You, Mr. Moto (Twentieth Century-Fox). Another Oriental mystery man-shaven-skulled, pop-eyed Peter Lorre-looks for seven scrolls, the key to a vast treasure in the tomb of Genghis Khan. Assassinations, a kidnapping, the torture of a prince, hara-kiri and other interruptions confuse his efforts...
...same pre-occupation with contrast invades even the non-fictional prose or this issue. The book reviews are filled with the problems of perversion and suffering, literary experiment and revolution, frustration and release. But the most comprehensive discontent is expressed in a lengthy article by Arthur Rosenbloom, "Hara-kiri in the Ivory Tower". Mr. Rosenbloom uses the Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts and Sciences as his springboard, and from it launches into a vehement stream of reflections on the plight of the modern academic intellectual. Exposing with more vigor than originality the impotence of idealistic reformers, he concludes...
Hamada was "insulting," claimed the Army was not Fascist and was "cooperating with the people." Hamada then worked himself up to a typical Japanese nervous frenzy, screamed, "I will kill myself by hara-kiri if it can be proved that the Army and the Cabinet are not hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections...