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...play this he signed the protocol at Potsdam." The piano was not in good tune and Harry Truman was not in his best musical form. He confessed that he had finished the Minuet with a few bars of a Mozart sonata. Then there were autographs to sign-from a toy bear to a WAVE's leave papers...
...Japanese people had already begun to toy with freedom. Newspapers flexed their muscles and criticized the old regime. Hundreds of letters, denouncing and demanding, broke into astonishing print. Politicians and intellectuals, eager to please the Americans, were busy forming new political parties. Long-repressed concepts came up in their talk: universal suffrage, proportional representation, free economy, free trade. Old Ichiro Hatoyama, leader of the rising Liberal Party, talked soberly of strengthening the Diet and weakening the Army and Navy. The forms and manners of party rule were not new to the Japs, whose Diet (Parliament) is 55 years...
...Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...
...breakneck race to deliver postwar toys in time for Christmas, the $200 million toy industry was falling behind. By last week manufacturers were ready to admit that this will be another year of cardboard and wood makeshifts: there will be few, if any, dolls of prewar quality, few rubber balls that really bounce, few electric trains, velocipedes, roller skates, bicycles and other wheeled and metal toys...
Reconversion. In Brooklyn, the U.S. Office of Surplus Property offered for sale 5,000 incendiary -bomb containers. Suggested use : flower boxes or toy chests...