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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While pious Japanese celebrated the rites of spring by making the traditional round of Buddhist temples and the tombs of their ancestors, thousands of Japanese "lowteen" girls in braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly" idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h...
...first day there, Gunther briskly informed a startled Intourist official that he had no intention of making only the rubbernecking rounds of collective farms and model factories. Boomed Gunther: "I want to see a really good lunatic asylum, an academy where young artists are trained, and a musician." He saw them-as well as ballets, church services and plays (including a "stunning" Macbeth). He foraged busily from Moscow's P.S. 151 to a children's nursery where they had never heard of diapers. He reached some of the top brass on the merry-go-round of diplomatic receptions...
...ship for England, where he was i) promptly hired by the News's London bureau, 2) fired when Chicago spotted his byline. After six months with the United Press in London, he was taken on by the News's Paris bureau and launched into an invaluable round as continental swingman, filling in for vacationing correspondents all over Europe...
Footnote to History. The germ of Inside Europe was planted in Gunther by Harper's Editor Cass Canfield after IQSI'S Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, created a demand for uninhibited political reporting. In 1934 Gunther reluctantly agreed that he might do a book on Europe's political leaders if Harper's put up what he considered an "impossible" $5,000 advance. He got the advance, slaved over the book at night while working in the Daily News's London bureau. With help, as he acknowledged, from "colleagues...
Unfortunately for Pajarito. neither the referee nor Bassey was listening. After a between-rounds breather in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut separated Moreno from his mouthpiece with such violence that third-row fans caught the spray. Even when he was completely off balance, Bassey almost removed Moreno from his haircut with a pair of left hooks and a right uppercut delivered in split-second succession. At the end of the third...