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Born. To the Crown Prince and Princess of Japan, a daughter (see JAPAN...
Last August a great sea turtle emerged upon the beach at Kamakura, famed site of the imperial villa of the Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan. Out rushed the imperial household, agog at this omen of good luck. When the turtle, having laid exactly 70 eggs, retired into the sea, it was bruited throughout Japan that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese...
Last week the famed obstetrician, Professor Nobuhige Kuriyama, waited hourly upon the Crown Princess; final preparations were made for an immense...
...roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow of George Gershwin. Walter Damrosch besought him to write a jazz concerto for the New York Symphony Society; Composer Gershwin said he would...
Professor J. D. M. Ford '94, Smith Professor of (French and Spanish Languages, who is now on leave of absence as Director of the American University Union in Paris, has been informed by cable that the King of Italy has made him an Officer of the Crown of Italy. Professor Ford is the third Harvard professor to be so honored within recent years...