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...Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
Stay-at-homes can tune in to WHDH--850 on the dial--for a broadcast of the game which begins at 2 p.m., but local television eyes will be turned elsewhere. WBZ-TV will travel to New Haven for the Yale Columbia encounter, while WNAC-TV will delight football fans with a portrayal of Peabody High's endeavors...
...Best Showman." Jinnah was born in Karachi in 1876 of a wealthy trading family; at 16 he went to England to study law. As an advocate of the Bombay High Court he was, according to a colleague, "the best showman of them all ... His greatest delight was to confound the opposing lawyer by confidential asides and to outwit the presiding judge in repartee...
...bleak prisoner-of-war camp at Oeyama, he was vengefully nicknamed "The Meatball." He was a bespectacled, bandy-legged little man who took a savage delight in mistreating captured G.I.s. Under "The Meatball's" regime, U.S. prisoners were, often beaten, ducked in the camp cesspool, forced to work even when sick. One was clubbed into temporary insanity...
...every play they can and have a good collection of paintings (mostly of the Barbizon school), including a Sargent and a Sir Joshua Reynolds: Girl with a Bird. When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign: 'Every little Damma must be taken from our drama.' Censorship is, in fact, 'Idiot...