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...Takahashi, Suetsugu, Hasegawa, Yamamoto and Sekine. The head of the Aikoku Meirinkai, a powerful five-million-man military reserve organization, and the element which will form the home front army which we must fight when we invade Japan, is the notorious Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Seigo Nakano, who was a next-door neighbor of mine, is a director of the organization. From the second floor of our house, we could see over the high bamboo fence into his garden where often the Black Dragon functionaries would gather. The police who "protected" his place often came to eat in our kitchen when...
Good Neighbor Wallace stepped to the microphone, spoke in the unhesitating Spanish he learned at Washington's Berlitz School and at Spanish-practice luncheons with Washington cronies. "These two nations," said he, "are next-door neighbors and good neighbors, and we have joined hands in the great fight of the United Nations to keep the world free...
...Raymor is as much an unofficial part of Harvard as its next-door neighbor on Huntington Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...
...were waiting for mediation of their ancient border dispute (TIME, Aug. 4) by Argentina, Brazil, the U. S. No newsmen were around to keep tabs on the truce. Not until last week did word get through that Peru had been improving the "truce" by going after Ecuador like a next-door bully all the time...
...household, where Brennan, the village postman, is required to make middle-aged puppy love to Miss Broderick, Benchley's housekeeper. Deanna, a little more mature, a little more cosmeticized with a brand-new pair of arched eyebrows, is mainly occupied with trying to catch the eye of her next-door neighbor (toothy Robert Stack), who seems more interested in his automobile...