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...story is set in the jungles of Thailand during World War II, where British prisoners, at forced labor, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. At one prison camp along the way, the fanatical Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), is having trouble. The senior officer of a new consignment of prisoners, a prim old pukka sahib named
SAMURAI!, by Saburo Sakai, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito (382 pp.; Dutton; $4.95), sweeps through the South Pacific with all guns firing as Pilot Sakai and his squadron of Zeros effortlessly shoot U.S. planes out of the sky. In five seconds over Port Moresby, four Airacobras are sent spinning into the sea. Another time the Japs down six of seven null without the loss of a Zero...
...through Communist China, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, turned up at Taerh Monastery at Sining in the remote northwest, where he posed for pictures after discussing matters of mutual interest with two Living Buddhas, seven-year-old Achia, head of the monastery, and the equally youthful Saito...
Daddy Will Pay. In Tokyo, when he returned home after a day's work, Restaurant Owner Shizumasa Saito found two burglars waiting, was robbed of $420, discovered that in his absence they had bathed his twelve-year-old son and tucked him carefully into...
...Kiyoshi Saito's Cat was designed, engraved and printed by the artist, with an eye to self-expression rather than sales value. No great shakes technically, Saito uses the grain of the wood for texture, as did Norway's Edvard Munch. The picture's bold black outlining and rich background color are strictly school-of-Paris. Only its suave, half-humorous air is Oriental...