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...Japanese have traditionally regarded open comment on physical infirmities as bad manners. Accordingly, they have been backing away for some time from such offensive terminology as mekura no kojiki (blind beggar) and bik-ko no kojiki (lame beggar) in their translations of the Italian tale. Nowadays the two villains are usually referred to in Japanese translations as "a cat with bad eyesight" and "a fox with weak legs...
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PARKER JR.: BIRD (Savoy, 2 LPs). Now's the Time, Ko Ko, Billie's Bounce-plus 27 more master takes make up the best of the fabled alto-saxophonist's Savoy recordings...
...tradition begun by that distant ancestor Kunte Kinte, each child in the successive generations in Haley's family was told the family history, which by Haley's time had been pared down considerably. He remembers his grandmother referring to their ancestor, "the African," who called the banjo "ko," the river "Kamby Bolongo," and who was out chopping wood for a drum at the age of 16 when four white slave traders kidnapped him and brought him to the United States...
Last week it was disclosed that for many years he was Lockheed's secret agent in Japan, collecting more than $7 mil lion since 1960 to help the firm sell air planes. An enormously wealthy man (worth an estimated $1 billion), with no readily identifiable occupation, Ko dama helped to found Japan's ruling party, assisted in the naming of Prime Ministers, and presumably used his connections on Lockheed's behalf...
Cornell was out of contention after Chuck Gruye lost the 50 free to the Crimson's George Keim but the KO punch came from Harvard captain Dave Brumwell as he beat Red star Jack Branden in the 200 individual medley...