Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorce with Dividends. Though it survived the war, unlike 50% of Japan's 132 dailies, General MacArthur soon divorced the paper from government control, ordered all Times stock to be sold to its employees. The Times seldom massacres its chosen language, thanks to crack translators. Most of its memorable faux pas have been perpetrated by foreign-born journalists who know little of Japanese customs. Readers still chuckle over a story written for the Times by an American woman who dined unwittingly at Tokyo's most notorious whorehouse, burbled at artless length in the paper about the "attractive girls...
Staunch Friend. The Times's high regard for Western journalistic methods is to a large extent the legacy of Kiyoshi Togasaki, a San Francisco-born newsman (University of California, '20) who ran the paper for 14 years until his retirement from active management last January. He was succeeded as president by Shintaro Fukushima, 49, a tough onetime diplomat. Fukushima is one of the West's staunchest supporters in Japan. Says he: "The only way Japan can live is in the sphere of the free world. We'll continue to say that in our editorials...
...before they leave. As it is, most travelers buy their lire, pesetas and francs abroad, where currency is often pegged at unrealistically high official rates. Travelers can beat the official rate by trading in the black market, but they risk being stuck with counterfeit bills or a fistful of paper wrapped in bank notes...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...
...Clinton T. Nash, peacetime stockbroker and wartime executive officer of the Public Relations Section of ComFleets command, his job, his staff, and the tropical island of Tulura constitute the hub of the naval universe. On his desk rests a three-inch shell casing full of paper clips, and a sextant which he tries in vain to sight; over it hangs the sign, "Think Big!" Nicknamed "Marblehead" because he lacks more than hair, Nash affects British knee-length shorts, carries a swagger stick, and talks a strange mixture of adman and old salt ("My hatch is open for ideas...