Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horse Sense. In Chicago's outskirts a plow horse named Admiral, wearied of the heat, broke the traces and charged down the street to a tavern, lined up against the regulars, plumped his nose on the bar and was rewarded with a free beer. His master, tired of searching for him, dropped into the bar for a quick one, spied the horse; they had another beer together and went back to their plowing...
...return of General Douglas MacArthur to his native land, after four years of war and three as master of Japan, will be an event. For a brief moment last week it looked as if that event were about to happen...
...Manhattan, Master Tapster Bill Robinson got a 70th-birthday cake (see cut), a Broadway blowout, a cruise party up the Hudson, a watch, and plaster casts of his feet, which he examined and pronounced authentic ("Got the bunions and all"). In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur gave the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post an autographed picture of himself...
...black 1941 Cadillac, with a master sergeant at the wheel, is waiting for him at the door. It rolls out the Embassy's tree-lined driveway past two sentry boxes at which two starched G.I.s come to attention; in the street the car is picked up by an escort of white MP jeeps. On the five-minute ride to work, MacArthur passes a sandlot where Japanese kids play baseball, a number of government buildings (some destroyed), the Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace, the green algae-covered Imperial moat. 'For the general, the traffic lights are always green...
When the sunlight ebbed from the courtyard, "the old master of the house decided that it was time to conduct the bridal pair to the nuptial chamber" - the bathhouse where "a long, wide couch" was strewn with dried lavender, violets and lilies of the valley...