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Eminently respectable in Japan, political assassination is a patriotic cult. Last week the erect old Patriarch of Terror, angel-faced Mitsuru Toyama, 79, was safer than ever from arrest by Japanese police. For one thing his beloved Koki Hirota, "one of my best boys," is Foreign Minister. For another, famed Terrorist Priest Inouye, once a likely rival for the post of Japan's No. 1 guide, philosopher and friend of patriotic assassins, is now in jail. He inspired the killing of Japan's greatest financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan, and Finance Minister Inouye, to be carefully distinguished from Terrorist Priest...
First pictures of the conviction of Priest Inouye's boys reached the U. S. last week, erroneously captioned to suggest that they belonged to patriarch Toyama's Black Dragon Society. It has suffered no such indignity at the hands of Japan's black-capped judges. Inouye's less fortunate "boys" were sentenced to jail for life, which in Japan means for life...
...Jeeter Lester, the ragged, flea-bitten patriarch of Tobacco Road, is beginning to take on some of the qualities of Hamlet. A great number of actors want to play it, and, by last week, three already...
...whites. For a time after this civil war the remaining men lived in a stupor of alcohol and unbridled miscegenation; then the women turned against them, cornered the supply of muskets and shut themselves into a stockade. The male survivor of this Lysistratian war was finally reconciled, became the patriarch-consort of the island. When a Yankee ship put in to Pitcairn's Island in 1808, the little colony was Godfearing, sober, prolific. They had never heard of the French Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars, but most of them were happy...
...gorgeous, jewel-studded robes the Serbian Patriarch and his bishops celebrated with their priests and acolytes the complex rite of Orthodox High Mass. Sonorously the dead King's virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...