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A broad-faced Oriental sea dog with quarter-deck manners and a likeable grin brought Japan's naval disarmament plan to Geneva last week. The plan as explained by its cheerful custodian, Vice-Admiral Osami Nagano, is crisp, direct, simple and quite as much a credit to its authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Japanese Plan | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Her long-suffering husband dropped dead in his soup plate when she absentmindedly toasted Germany at a dinner in the Russian Embassy. The play finds Clytemnestra, her two antic sons and more sensible daughter inhabiting their villa at Nice, broke. Even the daughter's practical U. S. suitor cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

As Jeritza bowed to the thunder of applause at the end. her smile might well have been tinged with cynical amusement. The Metropolitan, hard-pressed for cash, had dropped her from its roster last spring (TIME, May 30). When the Musicians' Symphony came begging her to sing for their jobless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aid | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic. Both face stern competition from the French Line, the North German Lloyd-Hamburg-American combination, U. S. Lines and to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Britons & Ships | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Oysters make both Oriental and Mikimoto pearls. When Mother Nature annoys an oyster by permitting a tiny bit of some irritating substance to get under its shell, the oyster reacts by covering this substance with layer on layer of pearly nacre, and the result is called an Oriental pearl. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three-minute Pearls | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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