Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist leaders have a way of disappearing from sight and then, when the rumors of their death are beginning to fill the world press, of turning up alive and kicking. Last week in Tokyo, the pattern was reversed: a Communist leader whom everybody counted alive was acknowledged to have died almost two years...
...police in 1950, was still recognized by Japanese Communists as the party's secretary-general and only inspired leader, though he was resident in Peking and revealed his august self only through secret directives and an occasional propaganda article. Alas, last week, in a dingy little hall in Tokyo, a Communist spokesman was forced by events to tell the truth. Tokuda was dead. He had died in Peking way back in October 1953. Under the new Moscow order of things, the spokesman went on, Tokuda will not be replaced by a new No. 1, but by a "collective leadership...
...landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...
House of Bamboo (20th Century-Fox) is a well-made cops-and-robbers story filmed in Tokyo. Enhanced by the petal-like beauty of the scenery, the story al most makes crime seem worth...
After the robber patrol knocks off a train, Ryan inducts a new enlisted man, tough-talking Robert Stack. Ryan does not know that Stack is an undercover cop for the U.S. Army. But Ryan has a paid informer himself-a Tokyo newsman of mixed Oriental background. This Peiping Tom discovers Stack's true identity, and then comes the fierce chase through Tokyo. It all ends with Villain Ryan, despite his prowess as a crooked field commander, getting his comeuppance at a rooftop carnival...