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At the Honolulu stopover, Akihito marched into a ship's lounge meeting with five dozen newsmen, read a formal statement of greeting in Japanese ("Here in Hawaii you have a veritable paradise of the Pacific ... a harmonious cosmopolitan community . . ."), then added extemporaneously in English: "I have heard so much...
Magnesium, a baby among structural metals, is growing up fast. As evidence, last week hundreds of magnesium products were put on display at the International Magnesium Exposition in Washington's cavernous National Guard Armory. Two-thirds the weight of aluminum, magnesium had comparatively few uses before World War II...
After graduation from Yale, and years of failure as a painter of expressionistic still lifes and landscapes, Osborn decided to concentrate on cartoons. The war gave him his big chance. An admiral saw his broad-penned sketches and put him to work as a lieutenant doing safety pamphlets for the...
Dylan Marlais Thomas, 38, is a chubby, bulb-nosed little Welshman with green eyes, a generally untidy air, and the finest lyrical talent of any poet under 40. When he settles down to guzzle beer, which is most of the time, his incredible yarns tumble over each other in a...
Dunster nosed out Eliot as the House most Yardlings do not want on their applications, polling 96 and 91 votes respectively. Over 60 percent of the freshmen blackballed at least one House. Winthorp, however, came through relatively unscathed, drawing only nine objections. Dunster, Adams, and Lowell, all in the upper...