Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sculptors, by the nature of their bulky craft, are the most tied down of all artists. The exception seems to be Los Angeles-born Isamu Noguchi, 54, who travels at the drop of a toothbrush, is equally at home in New York, Paris and Tokyo, believes in using tools to finish the job and then, if necessary, abandoning them. Last week Noguchi came to rest long enough to put together, at Manhattan's Stable Gallery, his first major exhibition in eleven years-36 pieces ranging from iron forms forged in Japan to towering monoliths in the famous Pentelic marble...
Taking their honeymoon in installments since the royal wedding last month, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko stole away to an imperial villa near the seaside resort of Hayama, some 50 miles south of Tokyo. In seclusion most of the time, they occasionally emerged, sportily attired, for strolls along the beach, seemed rapt in tranquil domesticity...
...YpRK-TO-ANCHORAGE nonstop air service once weekly will be started by Northwest Airlines on June 1. New great-circle flight on DC-7Cs will continue to Tokyo, cut seven hours' flying time from New York-Tokyo...
...Pacific headquarters in Hawaii: Brooklyn-born Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, 52, a West Pointer ('28) who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross soon after Pearl Harbor for his solo B-17 attack against Japanese warships off the Philippine coast, led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo. Now the Air Force's hard-driving deputy chief of staff for personnel, Lieut. General O'Donnell can look forward to wearing a fourth star in his new post...
...also travels up to 35,000 miles a year inspecting dogs on a global scale, recently returned from a world tour during which he judged shows in Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Ceylon, added still another breed (the Ceylonese sinhala) to the 100 he is already qualified to judge. "I never had so many dogs try to bite me in my life," said Riddle, who nonetheless got back unscarred. "Maybe I didn't smell right...