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...first to encounter the new professor of ancient Oriental history. The ladies never knew just how low to bow. Even more disconcerting, the professor would merely tip his brown fedora, whatever one did, and quietly amble on. Sometimes he would ride to the college by bus and crowded electric tram. But if he happened to be late, he would occasionally pull up in an imperial limousine with the Emperor's chrysanthemum crest on the door. Furthermore, there was the problem of knowing how to address him. The new professor was none other than Prince Takahito Mikasa, 39, brother...
TOMORROW CITY BUS AND TRAM LINES WILL BE STRUCK FROM 9 TO 11 AND FROM 3 TO 5. The strike, led by a Communist-controlled union, occurred as predicted, to no one's surprise. For, as the biggest (est. circ. 500,000) and most powerful Communist newspaper published in the free world, L'Unità not only reports the news but makes it as well...
...cynicism-or resignation-to have slashed its mark across his face, and therefore it has a beautiful, candid stupidity." He sings from 1 p.m. to 11, spends more than half of what he earns on supper, then sings until 2 a.m. before hopping the bumper of the last tram. He is six years old. ¶ Victorita is 17 and well built. The boy she loves has TB and lies in bed all day long. He warns her not to kiss him or she may catch his disease, but she kisses him anyway. One day, pale and haggard, she tells...
First they organized a Tram Fare Enhancement Resistance Committee, told passengers not to pay their fares, and beat up those who did. Next they swarmed into the trams, burned the seat cushions of the first-class section, and hurled second-class passengers into the streets. But the drivers kept on going. So the Communists pelted them and their passengers with bricks, bottles and Indian Communism's favorite weapon-bulbs filled with nitric acid...
...arrived, for the first time, at a shore of the United States. I had no papers and hardly any money. So what happened when I met Authority? I did not meet the august thing. I went down the gangway with my bag, quite openly, and took a tram into the city. That was all. Nor did it strike me as odd. From there I went to New York. Not a question was asked. In America, quite simply, I was, and every American was friendly...