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Takeshi Usami, the imperial emissary, stepped from the car and, at once, the Shoda door was opened by a low-bowing male secretary who ushered him into the drawing room. Hidesaburo Shoda, 55, and his pretty, grey-haired wife, Tomiko, bowing low, motioned their visitor to an armchair. In courtly language, Usami announced the news: His Imperial Highness, Crown Prince Akihito, had informed the Imperial Household Board that he wished to marry Michiko, the Shodas' 24-year-old daughter. Conforming to tradition, the Shodas expressed consternation and surprise; the father made low obeisance, murmured that the honor...
Hanging up, Johnson turned to a visitor. How did he see Democratic presidential prospects shaping up? "We've got a lot of good men," said Lyndon Johnson. "I know only one thing: it's not going to be me." He was even able to talk paternalistically about other Democratic presidential possibilities in the Senate. "You know," he confided, "I feel sort of like a father to these boys. A father loves his sons, though one son may drink a little too much, another may neck with the girls a little too much. A good father uses a gentle...
Smith is equally terse in social conversation. A visitor who recently had lunch with him asked what kind of work his father had done. Answered Smith: "As little as possible." Asked what sort of person his mother was, he replied: "Well, I liked...
...look just like a Secretary of Commerce," joked Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to a visitor last week. The comment was fitting: the courtly, well-tailored caller had an aura of dignity and success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly six years in the post, "Sinny" Weeks, 65, had decided to step down, and, to replace him, President Eisenhower had tabbed longtime (1953 to last June) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
...garden. Twice married, he has three grown sons. Pasternak prefers to write standing up in his virtually bookless den. There he was touched recently to receive the first copy he had seen of the U.S. edition of Doctor Zhivago. Revealing the underlying pathos of his isolation, he asked his visitor eagerly, "Do you think Hemingway and Faulkner will read...