Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Task Force. By Nazi standards, the Duke of Windsor might prove a useful tool. (Wasn't the royal family of German descent anyway?) The Germans saw Windsor as a king forced off his throne and sent into exile for love of a woman; and the thought must still rankle. Forced to flee from his French home, unwelcome in England, probably humiliated by the offer of the governorship of one of his younger brother's most insignificant West Indies colonies, the Duke of Windsor seemed a natural for the German cause. Hitler's Ribbentrop spared no effort...
...that has sprung up from the ashes and rubble of 1945. Tokyo, Japan's capital since 1868, was before World War II a sort of oriental Washington, D.C. Officially, only a limited number of nightclubs were permitted in the capital, and the sword-swinging prewar Japanese police force saw to it that decorum was the order of the day as well as the night. Now all this has changed. In twelve feverish, prosperous postwar years, Tokyo has had an explosive growth. Not only is it now the new Shanghai of the Far East, but it has also overtaken...
...Marine Pfc. Adolph W. Merten took a blurry look at the barroom quintet and decided he saw four Japanese Communists all set to kill an American Army sergeant. Merten, a Korea veteran subject to "Bolshephobia" (i.e., seeing Red) when liquored up, fired five wavering revolver shots. Shiro Takawa, 19, no Communist but simply another patron in the Yokosuka bar, fell dying. When Merten went to trial before a Japanese court last week for manslaughter, his Japanese lawyer pulled out Article 39 of the Japanese criminal code, which holds that "an act by a person of unsound mind is not punishable...
Police in Pennsylvania proclaimed the Crimson coach a missing person yesterday, but early this morning the missing person found himself. Yovicsin picked up a paper, saw his name in headlines, and ran to the nearest phone to inform the world that Harvard would, after all, have a head coach come September...
...said that in Poland there has been a great increase in civic liberties. He quoted a Polish newspaper as saying that since October 1956 there has not been one political arrest in the country which before saw political arrests by the hundreds every month...