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Drinking Team. Squat, ugly Itagaki and lean, handsome General Nishio made a perfect army team. They drank great quantities of sake together, Itagaki growing garrulous and gay, Nishio sour and taciturn on the gently powerful wine. They shared two of the controlling passions of the Japanese army: a hatred of Communists and a companion hatred of Japan's great capitalist families (the Mitsuis, Iwasakis, Sumitomos and Yasudas) on the twin grounds that their abuses fostered Communism and that they disputed the mastery of Japan with the army. When others laid an indiscreetly heavy hand upon the princes of money...
...happy one. Manager McCarthy had not only fined him $250 for jumping the club but had hired rollicking Rollie Hemsley to take his place. Hemsley, recently cast off by the Cincinnati Reds for his dismal record of 13 hits in 115 times at bat this season, seemed an unlikely squat-in for Bill Dickey. But on his first day with the Yankees, catching all innings of a doubleheader on the hottest day of the year, Hemsley got five hits in eight times up. For the next five games in a row, he hit safely. By last week...
...espionage and violation of the National Defense Act. Miss Argall was tied up and handcuffed when she was arrested and was repeatedly slapped until her face was cut. [CBS Representative Walter R.] Wills was slapped during the whole examination period, lasting more than three months. He was forced to squat for hours in Japanese fashion, with the result that he still is suffering an injury to his left knee. [Jasper N.] Bellinger was slapped, kicked on the shins and forced to stand for hours with his hands above his head...
...force a confession the police threatened me with firing squads as an alternative to instantaneous death at the hands of the examining police. For four days early in January 1 was forced to squat for hours in the Japanese fashion while four policemen slapped my face, kicked me and made feints at strangling me until my knees were covered with open wounds and I was a physical wreck...
...Squat red-brick building next door to the Hygienic Department on Holyoke Street, University scientists are working on what may one day be one of Harvard's important contributions to society, the analysis of the "normal" person...