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...sitting rooms for the august youngster. This week for the first time, the son of the son of the Sun, with shining morn ing face, romped across the Palace grounds, across one public street, to school. On rainy days he will ride-in a red lacquered, charcoal-burning car. After six years, a special educational institution will be built around Akihito, and professors will lecture a one-man class on The Art of Becoming an Emperor...
...money-order window, the street scenes that had caught his eye. In 1937 he retired on pension, able at last to paint all day. Last Feb. 23 Arnold Friedman was 60. Same day the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought his painting Unemployable (see cut). By last week, when his one-man show opened in Manhattan's Bonestell Gallery, modest Arnold Friedman was making a noise like a sure-enough artist...
No.1 composer of Brazil is hardworking, talkative, frantic Heitor Villa-Lobos. whose bumptious exuberance has turned him into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing...
...name was Alvin Cullum York. Singlehanded, Sergeant York bagged 20 Germans in No Man's Land, then, with seven of his men, brought in 132 more Germans. By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army." After that modest Alvin York just went back to his family farm at Pall Mall, Tenn., where he raised white-faced cattle, sheep and corn, traded in mules but not on his wartime record...
...reared company turned in a record net of $1,816,471 on $7,731,325 gross sales. It has twelve competitors, but is undisputed No. 1 U. S. earth-scraper manufacturer, makes over half of such equipment, from heavy rooters that will rip up anything but solid rock to one-man, self-propelling Carryall scrapers that will "dig a nice trench." It also has a company union. There are 50 basic LeTourneau patents, but the chief reason for the company's phenomenal success is the power control unit designed by Founder LeTourneau when he went home from revival meeting...