Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Communist siege of Taiyuan, Marshal Yen Hsi-Shan, leader of the Nationalist forces, arranged to have TIME Pacific parachuted to him along with the ammunition supplied by chartered planes. In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur reads TIME, as does Emperor Hirohito, after his secretary translates...
...Emperor, Then Tyrant. Last week, Composer Still's determination paid off. He sat nervously but happily in an up-front orchestra seat while a sell-out New York City Opera Company audience saw the first performance of a Still opera...
...Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) saw the Roman Empire begin to crumble about him in war, invasion, pestilence and revolution. A great Stoic, he wrote: "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name . . . Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end?" The U.S. Navy, contemplating the atomic age, last week achieved a comparable attitude...
...Emperor Hirohito thought that his country's defeat, all in all, had not been such a bad thing. He assured newsmen that the war's results had led to better understanding between Japan...
...gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...