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...Sis-Boom-Bah! A fortnight ago, nearly 31 years and some 7,000 miles from Princeton, 18 college boys in their mid-50s, headed by Princeton's head football coach and Class of '25 President Charles Caldwell, got out of a plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. With this orange-jacketed contingent were 13 wives, a departed User's widow, two classmates' sons. Instead of traveling farthest to his class's 1956 reunion, Seaweed Osawa, Mohammed-like, had persuaded part of the reunion to come to him. He had sent invitations to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Tigers in Japan | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

With a rip-roaring locomotive that dumfounded onlookers and customs men, the greying junketeers began their reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Tigers in Japan | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Just where these three days will come from presents a problem; but one which can be condensed, although only at the expense of undergraduate nerves. Shorter recesses or a longer school year would favor shortening their vacations. The winter reading period might be cut, but it sis already at a minimum of two weeks. A shorter winter period would also interfere with the freshman and pre-med courses which have already lost enough classes during football weekends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pause That Refreshes | 2/9/1956 | See Source »

...recurring nightmare haunts TV men. The nightmare scene, set in any American living room, begins and ends quickly when Mom or Pop or Junior or Sis snaps off the TV set with the dreaded verdict: "There's nothing on tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Like every well-bred young lady, Emily spent much of the year at house parties, expected to display her charms to eligible bachelors. Emily was bored to death; to kill time and tedium, she took to botany. One day she overheard staid old Lady Ampthill discussing this choice with Sis ter Betty. The result is a dialogue of priceless, period perfection: Lady A.: Did you see the flower show at the Temple? It was so beautiful, such lovely begonias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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