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...wrestling champion. After his graduation in 1933, he went to Princeton University for his master's degree in politics, then studied law for a year at the University of Chicago. In 1935 he joined an international law office in Tokyo and a year later transferred to the Nippon Electric Co., where he worked in the law and documents department...
...government. In the year or so that it has been going, it has been telecasting one night a week-lectures, political speeches, an occasional string quartet. There are only about 500 viewers in Japan; they all have home-built sets. Last week the lucky 500 heard good news: the Nippon Television Network Corp. (backed by a group of newspapers) applied for a license, and announced that it would begin competition with NHK early next year...
Shinsui Ito is even more of a traditionalist, for he has steadily resisted Western influences and made his reputation as a purely Nippon-Ga (Japanese-style) artist. As a portrayer of beautiful women, Shinsui is inevitably compared with Utamaro, the classic pin-up master. Although Shinsui admits that Japanese standards of feminine charm have changed ("it seems that the bust and figure predominate nowadays"), he has never wavered in his devotion to pure Oriental prettiness...
Asia, like Europe, had mixed feelings, but there was more foreboding than joy. Indian and Indonesian leaders who had attacked MacArthur as an obstacle to a negotiated settlement in Korea, were visibly pleased. In Japan, it was as though a fatherly friend and mentor had departed. The Nippon Times said: "The Japanese people owe General MacArthur an eternal debt of gratitude." The national Diet sent a letter: "Deepest gratitude . . . We shall remember you as our greatest benefactor...
...principles of thought which sent our clipper ships around the world in spite of the pirates of Barbary, which put Perry into Nippon and John Paul Jones into the Russian Navy! More power to you! Let's wake up and quit thinking in terms of little loops!"-Philip R. White of Willow Grove...