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Died. Kiyoshi Koizumi, 62, youngest son of famed author (and naturalized Japanese) Lafcadio Hearn, a moody artist who, despite his father's preoccupation with Japanese life and folklore, chose to paint in Western style; by his own hand (asphyxiation by gas); in Tokyo...
When I was a cub reporter, 65 years ago, I was taught that there never had been but two outstanding jobs of reporting: 1) Lew Wallace's account of the Ben-Hur chariot race (fictional); 2) Lafcadio Hearn's account of the Gas House [Tannery] Murder in the Cincinnati Enquirer...
...travels to the Far East, Author Lafcadio Hearn wrote in 1904: "Here, all is enchantment. You have entered bodily into Fairyland-into a world that is not and never can be your own. You have been transported out of your century into an era forgotten, back to something as ancient as Nineveh." In 1956 nearly 75,000 U.S. visitors, more than ever before, will journey to the Far East looking for some of the same enchantment. The main travel spots...
...goodbye-as gay as Mann could ever get. And yet his last words will also provoke serious interpretation. Felix Krull is a picaresque novel, and it stands, looking sometimes a little lump ish, in the raffish succession of The Golden Ass to Don Quixote to A Sentimental Journey to Lafcadio's Adventures to (sob!) L'il Abner itself. The book's first fragment (54 pages) was published more than 30 years ago-inspired by the impassioned morbidities of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. But most of the final 330 pages, written in the last years...
Married. Ranko Koizumi, 23, granddaughter of U.S. Writer Lafcadio Hearn (who married a Japanese samurai's daughter, changed his name to Koizumi and became a Japanese citizen); and Air Force 1st Lieut. Gordon C. Brandes, 27; in the bride's home in Tokyo...