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...quarter of a century later, Hideyoshi's successor as shogun, arch-isolationist Tokugawa Ieyasu, built a stronghold at Nagoya, 100 miles northeast of Osaka, Ieyasu wanted neither conquest nor foreign trade; he clamped the lid on Japan, and his family kept it there for 300 years. Like Osaka, Nagoya grew up in the image of its maker. Nagoyans put classical poems, flower arrangements and the complex subtleties of the Japanese tea ceremony ahead of commerce and industry; they dislike to hustle; there is still a feeling that trade is somewhat vulgar...
Rome's opera lovers, reviewing progress since the war, and eyeing their arch operatic enemies in Milan, were delighted. Said one: "We are at least improving artistically while La Scala is living largely on its reputation...
Despite its gloom over the Senate's fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed...
Traditional Class Night ceremonies are on the docket tonight in Radcliffe Yard. According to custom, seniors march up Radcliffe Yard from Long-mencement marching and seating. fellow Hall to Agassiz House under an arch of Chinese lanterns held by junior ushers...
After a motoring trip through Spain and a brief stopover in Hollywood, Rita and Aly flew down to Mexico City. For two days the couple remained barricaded in a suite in the Hotel Reforma. From Mexico the lovers flew to Cuba, attempting the arch pretense that they were barely acquainted. To reporters' questions, Swiss-educated Aly replied: "Look here, old boy, I'd like to answer your questions, but how can I when they are so embarrassing...