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...Steel Hour: Actor-Author Robert Emmett's You Can't Win lost its silly head completely but managed to keep its heart in the right place and a tickly hand on the viewer's funnybone. As he dum-tada-ta-ed the habanera from Carmen ("Greasy cup and dirty plate, I'll wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most...
Gainsborough has also lined up an exotic array of 17 teachers. As director of studies he picked German-born Frederic Spiegelberg, Stanford's top expert in Hindu culture and religion. From Japan he got Lama Tokwan Tada, a wizened little man in yellow robes who is the only living Japanese High Lama of Lhasa. From India came Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, the former Prime Minister of Travancore...
...Japanese "ronin" provocateurs recently stirred up Chinese farmers to revolt and seize two towns (TIME, Nov. 4). Deriving his authority from Nanking, the Chinese satrap on the spot, General Shang Chen, sat down and made a deal last week with the Japanese Army representative in North China, General Hayao Tada. "The Deal," according to General Shang: "General Tada promised me to control the activities of the Japanese ronin now and in the future. He agreed that I shall send my 'peace preservation' troops into the demilitarized zone, which they formerly could not enter, to drive the rebel farmers...
...magnificence of General Tada's appetite was hinted in one line: "Japan's continental policy aims at the salvation of China's 400,000,000 exploited humans and Japan will exterminate any one obstructing...
...Army's Director of Military Affairs by a fire-eating lieutenant-colonel, mild War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi resigned to make way for less mild General Yoshiyuki Kawashima. Since a Japanese officer's patriotism is measured by his appetite for Chinese territory, patriotic Major General Hayao Tada, whose appetite is enormous, was sent to sprawling, international Tientsin to command the Japanese garrisons in North China. Last week voracious General Tada called in 20 Japanese correspondents to give them a pamphlet and his views on how much of China Japan should swallow...