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...Japanese repentant? A. No. And neither are they unrepentant. They felt oppressed by their own military clique and are pleased because we have freed them from that oppression...
Major Charles Boxer, freed from a Jap prison camp and from his ex-wife in England, sailed for the U.S. and Author Emily Hahn, who told the world in her autobiography (China to Me) that Boxer was the father of her four-year-old daughter. Said he, before leaving Hong Kong: "It would be much better if we were married . . . more convenient when staying at hotels." Said she, in Manhattan: "I think we'll try for one more...
...Gradually through this concentration I focused on the logical elements," he explains. "The result was the elimination of a number of particularized optical truths which I had formerly concerned myself with." By the time he got to Eggbeater No. 5 (see cut), he had freed himself pretty well. It still contained some "optical truths"-but nobody could ever beat an egg with the kind of beater he painted. Davis was well on his way to abstractionism...
Michael Fulker worked in Quebec's Chateau Frontenac kitchen, grew to manhood among the shanties of Ontario's towns. Then in 1925 he and Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when...
...recent Girl in Oriental Costume. Through most of the German occupation the old master had been sick near Nice; he had painted lying in bed. In 1943 his wife and daughter were tortured by the Gestapo on suspicion (justifiable) of helping the underground, but were finally freed. Matisse's health is still delicate, but he has seldom painted with more youthful boldness and joie de vivre...