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Then last year she met a type of person who wrapped her in warmth: Tokyotaro Toda, 52, a chunky playboy, graduate of Cambridge and son of a Kobe landowner. Mrs. Kacho, then 40, was collecting for the Women's Welfare Society. Toda, a divorced man, contributed handsomely, added gifts on the side for Mrs. Kacho...
...Kacho stuck to his chickens, though he saw a change come over his wife. "Each time they met, I thought each cup of coffee or tumbler of whisky she accepted was drugged. At first one drop, then two-until he had completely won her heart." One night last July, Toda called at the Kacho cottage, presumably to talk charities. "Unsuspectingly," said the ex-prince, "I opened the door to the cloakroom and there I discovered the figures of Toda and Hanako as I should never have seen them...
...cuckolded ex-prince pummeled Toda, fracturing two fingers in a left to the jaw. Then, in his remorse, he thought of suicide. After consulting his kinfolk and the Imperial Household Office, he sued for and won a divorce...
...place for a nunnery was General Toda Rai's palace at Mopu. The soaring bulk of Kanchenjunga opposite, surrounded by lesser peaks of the Himalayas, gave it far too spectacular an outlook, and no alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus...
...workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...