Word: taro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story tells how an upper-class Japanese family is affected by Japan's war on China and the U.S. By the time Cornell-educated Taro Seki (Tom Neal) returns to Japan from the U.S., he has become waywardly democratic. He has forgotten that Japs take off their shoes before entering their homes, and like to take their baths in the company of girls. Taro's father, wealthy Publisher Ryo Seki (J. Carroll Naish), shows him the error of his Western ways by explaining that Japan's eventual domination of the world is all that really counts...
...three U.S. airmen ate whatever they could find - caterpillars, grubs, toads, snakes, lizards. Resourceful, they grew some of their own food by planting small gardens of taro and kaukau (something like yams). When they could, they killed game like cassowary or ratite bird, but meat was a rarity. Once they found some canned salmon that had washed ashore from a sunken Jap supply ship. For ten long, horrifying months they fought sickness and hid from Japs in New Britain's jungle. Last week the world learned that by sheerest luck they had been rescued...
When Mexican telephone companies recently upped monthly rates four pesos (80?), 1,000 subscribers in provincial Querétaro got so mad they lifted their receivers right off the hook-and left them off. Not till the rates came down again, said they, would they put back their receivers or pay their bills. Last week, local managers tore their hair trying to figure how to beat the strike...
...Chicago World's Fair to introduce tea ice cream to America. Last year when an American friend toasted his 92nd birthday (Japanese are one year old at birth) he said he expected to live to be 125. But he had previously transferred his title to his son, Taro, and was ready for death. Last week it came to Tycoon Takashi Masuda...
...black-browed fatalist of 24, Capa has strung along with Leftist attacks lightly armed with a Leica. His wife, Photographer Gerda Taro, was crushed by a Leftist tank last year during the retreat from Brunete. Capa's work in Spain has made him one of the world's great photographers and last week's exhibition was his first in the U. S. It was also a nearly definitive collection of Capa's Spanish photographs. For after more than a year of pictorial reporting, interrupted only by a brief visit to the U. S. last autumn, Robert...