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...travel and tourism have made him, at 47, one of Japan's most remarkable postwar millionaires. He operates through his Tokyo-based company, Kokusai Kogyo, whose sales last year rose to $61 million. Among other things, the firm owns and operates Japan's biggest bus and taxi fleets, seven Japanese hotels and a string of driving schools, travel agencies and sporting-goods shops. It is also Japan's largest distributor of Chrysler Corp. autos and its sole distributor of International Harvester farm and construction equipment. As if all this were not enough, Osano last year bought three...
...Wounded in China and discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided business empire, Osano has amassed a personal fortune of about $140 million...
Separate Room. On the surface, the story of John and Mary Cheever is a period piece of the '30s. John called in a taxi at Mary's rooming house and swept her off to his Village apartment, where they set up housekeeping. Actually, with vestigial New England punctilio, Mary was installed in a separate room. In any case, events shifted the story into a pattern closer to John's anachronistic traditions. With all the pomp of an outraged Victorian parent, Mary's father descended upon the pair and demanded to know John's intentions. "Marriage...
...with tragedy that few have to endure. On a trip to New York in 1960 to do a small part in Breakfast at Tiffany's, she brought her three small children with her. The youngest, Theo, was being wheeled across upper Madison Avenue in his carriage when a taxi went through a red light, hit the carriage, and carried it into the rear...
...great sorrow, the double-breasted suit has disappeared. Sartorial sociologists blame this on the trend toward informality. "They always had to be buttoned. If you walk around in an unbuttoned double-breasted, you look like a taxi with all the doors open," explains Irwin Grossman, vice president of Manhattan's Groshire-Austin Leeds...