Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
...played trumpet in dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal...
...Council of Europe met to discuss the recommendations which the Council's Assembly had sent up last summer (TIME, Aug. 15 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the ministers approved the admission of the West German Republic and the Saar territory to the Council as an "associate member." But on almost every other question the ministers passed the buck to U.N., to OEEC and other organizations...
...pleasant cottages for which they pay the company a nominal rent, work in spotlessly clean factory buildings. There are hot and cold showers (available to wives & children on Saturday), a hospital, a library. Gustave Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France from sliding into the collectivist pitfall. Their answer...
Expatriate Raymond Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...