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...branch in Tokyo is to be found at 79 Onden 3-chome, Shibuyaku. The telephone number is Aoyama 36-0404. The figure four is significant since it translates two ways-"shi" or "yon." The former can also translate death...
...chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting hither & yon, distributing White House roses among her colleagues' desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that OCD workers in Washington did not get enough recreation, she got hold of a portable phonograph, at lunch hours led 40 or 50 workers up to the roof to dance Virginia Reels. "Her intentions," said one admirer, "were swell." The First Lady typified the earnestness and confusion with which U.S. women...
...accident rate rises in suburban U.S. communities this fall because citizens are hit by flying sticks, insurance companies can blame a game called Kangaroo Golf. Invented and patented by internationally famed Composer-Organist Pietro Yon, virtuoso at Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, it has the same object as golf and can be set up in any good-sized yard...
...Composer Yon, who thought up the game five years ago while summering in his native Italian Alps, has shot 9 holes in 19, claims to be world's champion by virtue of victories over such experts as Cinemactor Roland Young, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, various members of the Italian royal family...
...officer of the Shelley Society. "You are playing-at a safe distance yourself, maybe, with fire. In spreading Shelley you are indirectly helping to stir up the great socialist question . . . the one question which bids fair to swamp you all. . . ." Thomas Carlyle rudely cut short one Shelleyite rhapsody. "Yon man Shelley," he growled, "was just a scoundrel, and ought to have been hanged...