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Barking orders to police cars by radio as he tears around Tokyo in his "Police Station On Wheels," slim, high-strung Chief of Police Shohei Fujinuma looks the picture of a genial, super-progressive 20th Century Japanese. One day last week the visiting puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, whose State junket to Tokyo has cost Japan $1,000,000 (TIME, April 15), departed laden with $150,000 worth of gifts, observing with Chinese dryness, "I should like to repeat this visit soon." Next morning Police Chief Fujinuma called in Japanese reporters, publicly sighed short pants of relief and gave them their...
...girls were Elizabeth and Jane du Bois, only children of Coert du Bois, U. S. Consul General at Naples. Jane, 20, dominated her 23-year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who had been delayed at Naples on a flight to Singapore. One of the officers planned to break his engagement to a Bedfordshire dancing instructress to marry Jane. The other officer had an "understanding" with Elizabeth. Few hours after the officers left Naples they crashed in Sicily, died in flames...
...things expected of a Harvard man, almost without saying, is to scorn the antics of Joe Penner, but the fact remains that that gentleman can be really quite a funny fellow. His present performance, however, is merely a succession of his stock phrases, strung together with the least possible justification of any absorbing continuity. As a result, only those who worship at the shrine of "You nasty man!" and "Don't never do that!" and can thrill to hear them repeated "in person" will get much enjoyment out of the headliner. The Boswell Sisters are a different story, doing their...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was all ready last week for another one man show of the works of Gaston Lachaise, U. S.-naturalized French sculptor (TIME, July 23). Broad-beamed, long-haired, yet extremely high strung, Sculptor Lachaise finds emotional relief in modeling monstrous female figures with breasts like melons, hips like hills. Prize piece in last week's show was a 2,000 Ib. female figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from...
...wife. Infuriated Shermanites attacked and burned the courthouse with the result that Prisoner Hughes suffocated to death in a steel vault in the county clerk's office. From the vault his limp body was yanked out and paraded around town in a motor truck before being strung to a tree. A drugstore was ransacked for boxes, counters, sample cases to build a fire beneath the corpse. Cooked by the flames, the muscles of George Hughes's arms and legs twisted themselves up into the knots Isamu Noguchi eternally preserved in Death...