Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since he became puppet ruler of Jap-conquered China five years ago, Wang Ching-wei had expected death-at the hands of assassins. For several years he had carried in his body one bullet that failed to kill him. But last fortnight, when death, as it must to all men, came to China's No.11 traitor (aged 60, in a Japanese hospital), it came not from gunfire but from diabetes...
Fearful that the U.S. Navy, now undisputed ruler of the western Pacific, would take advantage of the Imperial Navy's eclipse, the Japs reported American surface ships shelling the Volcano Islands, only 750 miles south of Tokyo...
...this, thanks to the phonograph, it is not necessary to know "the technical facts and names of what you are hearing." With the help of a cardboard ruler (provided with each volume), to indicate positions on records, Haggin guides his reader through recordings of more than a score of great compositions, pointing out the developing musical speech of each, the points of special eloquence. Of his reader he asks hard eye & ear work, but in the end the possible rewards may include, for instance, "the right frame of mind to listen to one of the greatest wonders achieved by human...
With a bouncing performance by Walter Pidgeon, the lifelong romance of wise Susie and her empire-building Major is a disarming and refreshing story-far more successful than the double exposure which runs alongside it. This somewhat confusing countermelody concerns Grandmother Susie, the lone ruler of her late husband's empire; Grandson Amory, a Wall Streeter who has embezzled $31 million; and the crummiest set of moneygrubbing relatives since The Little Foxes. In a practical demonstration of her old Major's rugged sense of justice, Susie pays back the $31 million, leaving herself broke and sending the heirs...
...Khan, multimillionaire spiritual ruler of some 12,000,000 Ismaili Moslems in India and Africa, took a constructive attitude toward the postwar world by buying some new horses and lining up a new bride.* The pumpkin-shaped sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired...