Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tortuous Road. For Setsuzau Kotsuji, the road to the Jewish faith was long and tortuous. As a child, in Kyoto, Japan's temple-filled ancient capital, he discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...
...white jury (ten men, two women) in Judge Taylor's federal court in Knoxville, was remarkable as much for its cast of characters as its issue. Long-legged Frederick John Kasper, 27, was the headline defendant, a preening cock in his moment of glory. Kasper ran a bookshop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1953. A screwball without a cause, he seemed then to be a friend to Negroes, permitted solicitation of N.A.A.C.P. contributions in his shop, frequented interracial dances, kept company with a Negro girl. Yet after he bolted to Washington, D.C., his store rent unpaid, hundreds...
...probably breathed a thankful sigh that he resigned from Watch and Ward when he did. Two members of the society, giving false names, had repeatedly tried to buy a copy of the Boston-banned Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, from the owner of the Dunster House Bookshop (no relation to the House), and, when he finally sold them one, the good Watchers and Warders took him to Court, and, with little pricking of conscience and much soft hissing from the Harvard spectators, openly revealed their deceit. The little bookseller was sentenced to four months in the "house...
Marvin got on the trail several years ago when he stumbled across a volume of 14 Soler sonatas in a secondhand bookshop in California, immediately recognized them as "something different." He played the sonatas in recital, but suspected that they were heavily edited and set out (with the aid of a foundation grant) to track down the 50-odd additional Soler sonatas listed in musical dictionaries...
Died. Christopher Darlington Morley, 66, bearded poet, essayist, critic, playwright, author of some 50 books (Parnassus on Wheels, The Haunted Bookshop, Thunder on the Left, Kitty Foyle); of a cerebral thrombosis after a long illness; in Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Twice editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1937, 1948), authority on Joseph Conrad, Kit Morley also delighted in daffy verse, wrote LIFE'S editor on a Battle of Britain story (1941) in which the battlefield 80 miles long, 38 wide and from five to six high was described as a "cube...