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Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
...Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley in a Spanish costume. Other big Consolidated customers: Bayuk Phillies (500,000,000 bands), White Owl (450,000,000), William Penn (125,000,000), El Producto (125,000,000). Bands sell for 22? to 45? per thousand, and in a good year Consolidated sales gross...
...stroke of ten last night, the inhabitanis of Lowell House were pleasantly surprised when five of Cambridge's most modern fire engines congregated in front of the Owl Club. After five minutes futile search for the blaze, the good news came that it was really in front of Leverett, so throwing their machines into gear, the smoke-eaters dashed backwards down Holyoke Street, across Mill Street, and thence to Memorial Drive, where they behold a pile of smoldering leaves, apparently not by mischievous urchins some thirty minutes earlier...
Diplomats are supposed to be a tactful tribe, but in Tokyo owl-eyed Mr. Eiji Amau, famed Official Spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, continues to carve out of tactlessness a great career. Many Japanese expect to see him Premier some day. Last week Official Spokesman Amau fairly surpassed himself when mockingly he announced that if the Great Powers dislike Japan's far-sighted and ingenious oil policy, "they can appeal to China...
Said Mr. Bidwell: "There was nothing risque. . . . There was not a laugh in it, and St. Joan was as solemn as an owl...