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...speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo's whole odd story was stranger than the tortuous trail which led him from a Japanese prison camp on Corregidor to a federal courtroom in New York's Foley Square, where he sat on trial last week for treason during wartime (maximum penalty: death...
...nice thing about the Boston Symphony's open rehearsals is their concert hall quality. Instead of a tortuous practice session, a student audience sees and hears a preview of the next day's subscription concert. Charles Munch seldom finds it necessary to ask the orchestra to replay unsatisfactory passages. After nearly a week of practice, he has only a few subtle problems of interpretation to work...
...easily decline into a painful concentration on psychological torture and an overly sentimental treatment of the child. The director, however, consciously avoided these pitfalls almost to the extent of robbing the film of speed and realistic emotion. Most of the time, the man and boy are escaping through tortuous fields and swamps, continuously avoided shepherds, bicyclers, and campers. The boy, Jon Whitely, fortunately saves this scene from being exasperating and boring. He doesn't say much; three-quarters of his script is "I'm hungry." His expressive face and unaffected actions, furthermore, place him high among adolescent talent...
...brilliant, eccentric-styled Czechoslovakian army captain who runs as if every step would be his last. After shattering Olympic marks in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, he capped his own climax by breaking the Olympic marathon record the first & only time he ever ran the tortuous (26 mi. 385 yd.) distance. The biggest Olympic disappointment was Japan's top-rated swimming team, which copped only two silver medals. Even famed Hironoshin ("the Flying Fish") Furuhashi straggled in a bad last in the 400-meter free-style final...
Swamps & Pitfalls. Has Estes Kefauver really got a chance? The answer lies only at the end of a tortuous route, beset by every conceivable swamp, pitfall and booby trap known to politics. Kefauver's immediate strategy is to prove his popular strength. He will head, first, into the important primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska, April 1. Wisconsin looks hopeful because the Truman forces are split there. Nebraska puts him squarely against Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. as yet an untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along...