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...first Western symphony orchestra to tour the Far East (sponsored by the U.S. State Department, ANTA and Japan's Mainichi newspapers), the Symphony of the Air packed Tokyo's 2,600-seat Hibiya Hall for the opening concert. Scalpers were collecting $22 for $5 tickets. Conductor Walter Hendl of the Dallas Symphony led a program of Berlioz, Gershwin, Richard Strauss and Brahms, got a six-minute ovation from an audience which included Crown Prince Akihito. Twenty-four hours before tickets went on sale for a special student concert, crowds began to line up at the box office...
Police Control? The bills worried a great many anti-Communist Japanese, including the editors of Asahi and Mainichi, the country's leading newspapers. The bulk of the Teachers Union membership, it was agreed, is not Communist; newspapers aptly call the union tancho-zuru, after a native crane with a white body and a small, red head. But action taken against the whole group would strengthen the Communists' hand. Also, warned Mainichi: "Twisted interpretation of the laws could place the nation's education system under police control...
...track-record time of 1:55 4/5 for the mile and three-sixteenths. ¶ In Tokyo, Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy Martin, Pitchers Mike Garcia and Robin Roberts, and Home-Run Kings Ed Mathews and Hank Sauer...
Communications, too, had been rudimentary at first. Early in the war the United Press's Rutherford Poats tried to speed things up by borrowing some carrier pigeons from Tokyo's Mainichi. One of Poats's copy-bearing pigeons took a leisurely eleven days to fly from Korea to Tokyo. (The U.P. put the story on the wires anyway.) By last week communications were vastly improved. Telephone and teletype lines, in some cases, had been extended down to division headquarters. On good days, Korea copy reached Tokyo anywhere from one to six hours after it had been filed...
...Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, the three big Tokyo dailies, all touted the leftward trend. Former militarist editors, now wearing pinkish hues, might privately admit they were hypocrites, but they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing...