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...Chiang Kaishek, the intense, durable revolutionary who is Generalissimo of China's Nationalist armies, President of China's Nationalist Government, and boss of China's Nationalist (or Kuomintang) Party. This week a growing list of Americans are at long last getting inside Chiang's shaven head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Long Reach | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...close-shaven grass courts of Forest Hills and Melbourne, 25-year-old Jack Kramer had swept all amateur tennis opponents before him. How would the Davis Cup hero do on a slippery board floor? He wasn't sure himself. Last week, in the U.S. indoor championships in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he put himself to the test. It was his first indoor tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jack in the Armory | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Ford plant. When he returned to Russia, he reported so enthusiastically about his life & times in the U.S. that friends kept snapping: "Well, if you liked it so much there, why don't you go back?" Conforming to Peter's Western ideal, he is clean-shaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Beards | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Emperor' Hiromichi (meaning Way of the Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pretender | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...misery during the Japanese defense of Manila, Filipinos spoke the name of General Tomoyuki Yamashita as if it were blasphemous. When peace came and the "Tiger of Malaya" was brought to trial, they crowded the courtroom to stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The Gentleman or the Tiger? | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

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