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BORN. To Toshiro Mifune, 62, ruggedly handsome film actor often referred to as the John Wayne of Japan (Rashomon, 1950; The Seven Samurai, 1954; and the TV movie Shōgun, 1980); and Mika Kitagawa, 33, his longtime girlfriend and sometime movie actress: his third child, her first (he is still married to his first wife); a girl; in Tokyo. Name: Mika...
...during the UMass band's half-time show, but they soon got their first real smell of defeat, as the Redmen marched 77 yards in six plays right after the second half kick-off. Once again, the crusher was a slant-in, this time to Gary Mika, for 56 yards...
...Ralph '61 G 18 5.10 195 Orange, Conn. 64 Cummings, Bruce '59 G 18 6.1 194 Branchville, N.J. 65 Pisacane, Frank '60 G 20 5.10 186 Shelton, Conn. 68 Kelly, Ray '59 G 20 5.11 199 Archbald, Pa. 71 Troychak, Dennis '59 T 21 6.2 208 Monessen, Pa. 72 Mika, John '60 T 20 6.3 231 Bethlehem, Pa. 73 Smith, Edgar '59 T 20 6.3 202 Doylestown, Pa. 74 Wolkowitz, Dick '60 T 20 5.11 220 Vineland, N.J. 76 Abraham, Louis '59 T 19 6.3 216 Hackensack, N.J. 77 Hordubay, Joseph '59 T 20 6.1 199 Windber, Pa. 78 Stubblebine...
...ETRUSCAN, by Mika Waltari (381 pp.; Pufnam; $4.50), takes its readers on a Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage...
MOONSCAPE (Putnam; $3.50)."With clumsy fingers I undid two buttons of her frock, slipped my hand beneath it and ..." And Mika Waltari, whose bestsellers (The Egyptian, The Adventurer, The Wanderer) would be considerably shorter if his heroines knew about zippers, is off meandering again, this time in his native Finland. This volume consists of five not-very-short stories. The title yarn tells what happens to the unbuttoned country girl: she grows up to be a movie star with a boudoir-view of life ("There are no impotent men, only unskilled women, don't you think?"). Another story...