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...Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
...would probably pass up the works of Benton, Curry, Wood, Kroll and Speicher, invest in a seascape by Frederick Judd Waugh. Later he would be considerably surprised to learn that the Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular painting at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. This award went to his Ante Meridian not on the say-so of any highbrow judges but by a majority vote...
...East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tutankh-Amen...
...have never had anv reason to doubt," declared the kindly oldster, whose patients refused to let him retire five years ago, "that I acted justly." He believes, furthermore, that the entire medical profession is now readier to condone such "mercy killings" than it was in 1887. "Fifty years have brought a lot of changes in attitudes of thought," said...
...impossibility of producing a corpus delicti, a district attorney sped a State detective to North Brookfield to investigate the 48-year-old death. The detective shortly announced that there was nothing to substantiate Dr. Warriner's claim that he had deliberately done away with Le Tourneau. Snapped Oldster Warriner: "There were four physicians in [North] Brookfield at the time. The others are dead. I am alive. Therefore all others who were acquainted with the case cannot corroborate my story...