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...stepped in front of the crowd. "Tenno Heika banzai-Long live His Majesty, the Emperor!" he yelled. "Banzai!" echoed the crowd in a booming roar. "Banzai!" the masses outside took up the cheer. "Banzai!" they cried, shaking their paper flags as the maroon Packard drove past the thin white pillar that notes the center of the atom blast. It looked as if defeat and a confused postwar world were transforming the Emperor of Japan into the Emperor of the Japanese...
...cross-examining the agent who described Miss Coplon's arrest, he snatched up her handbag, minced up & down before the jury. "Now comes this great eclipse," he bawled, "this marvelous piece of FBI ideology!" When searching her, he said, the FBI had "stripped her from pillar to post" and from "topsail to feet...
...auditions with her roommate. What Choreographer Antony Tudor was doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned from her actor-father with the best of ballet. With the premiere of Tudor's Pillar of Fire in 1942, Nora came to full flame...
...father (they have four little daughters). To his employers, a Boston motion-picture theater chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday-school teacher and editor of the church's paper, Tall Spire. To everyone else, he was a friendly guy who looked much younger than his years, liked a drink now & then, foisted neither his religion...
...phoned up the Rugby Club's defensive pillar. Eddie Davis over at the Business School Monday night to see if we could scare up a couple of good flashy quotes. "Oh," moaned Eddie when informed of our purpose, "I'm too tired to think, say anything you want...