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During the Japanese occupation, his ready wit landed him in prison for telling tales from history wherein overbearing conquerors came to naught. After the Japanese moved out, Kan poked fun at the Nationalists, who sternly reprimanded him. Then the Communists took over. At first the Reds hailed Kan as an authentic "artist of the people." He reciprocated by giving the new regime a plug or two in his tales. But when his listeners showed signs of boredom, Kan promptly reverted to his old style...
...crowd of about 2,000 gathered at 1 p.m. yesterday to watch the Lampoon's attempted balloon ascension to the moon. The time seemed auspicious, the winds and temperature correct; but the attempt came to naught when a hidden marksman blasted the balloon to smithereens just before the take...
Fitzgerald had always loved the place. As an undergraduate from Minnesota, he was an intense student ("I'm taking naught but Philosophy & English") with a burning desire to become a famous writer ("Do you realize that Shaw is 61, Wells 51, Chesterton 41 ... and I 21?"). He wrote for the Lit, threw himself into the Triangle Club and all the other doings on a "leafy campus" of "Brooke's* clothes, clean ears, and, withall, a lack of mental prigishness...
...Time and change can naught avail To break the friendships formed...
Small Game Sir: Deplorable, unChristian, the device of a singularly small mind: "Square 49" [TIME, March 20] made me see RED . . . Not only am I Roman Catholic, I am studying for the priesthood; and that business of the new "game" in Naples inspires me with naught but shame and disgust that one of the Church's servants should so distort the spirit of the Holy Year (any year, for that matter) with so grotesque an exhibition of bigotry . . . Jesuit Inventor Sergio de Gioia does little, if anything, to enhance his Roman collar. I think he disgraces it. WILLIAM FAHEY...