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...reaching were last week's demands: 1) withdrawal of all foreign financial support and missionaries from Japan; 2) replacement of all foreign missionary executives by Japanese Christians (whose ears the Government can pin back without causing an international rumpus); 3) an amalgamation of all the Protestant sects in Japan. Significant was the proposed title for this new national body: the Genuine Japan Christian Church. Equally significant was the date which the Government set for the union: Oct. 17, the day on which Emperor Hirohito, himself considered a god by his subjects, dispatches a messenger to Ise to offer prayers...
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, whose "perfect romance" was marred only by the fact that each was married to someone else, finally married each other last week (see p. 38). Mickey Rooney received a new contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey...
...bland, baby-faced smoothness. Some super-Nazis still view with suspicion his birth, despite his mother's affidavit that he was illegitimate. Her husband, who gave the child his name, was a Jew. But Hitler likes and trusts him highly, gave him a gold Nazi Party pin (great favor...
...Worcester Reed Warner, 34, of Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills, and Ambrose Swasey, 34, ex-farm boy of New Hampshire, emptied their pockets and formed a $6,000 partnership. Heavily bearded Partner Warner's hobby was astronomy. When in knee pants he pushed a pin through his mother's window shade to see a sun eclipse. In 1881 he built a 9½-inch telescope, began making W. & S. famous in the optical world. In 1893 their 40-inch Yerkes instrument was exhibited at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. Last year their 82-inch McDonald telescope...
...newsorgan Arriba whipped out a jingo editorial announcing that Spain was no longer neutral but nonbelligerent. A few days later Generalissimo Francisco Franco officially embraced this policy, laid claim to Gibraltar and an unspecified piece of North Africa. Last week Arriba again applied the point of a pin to El Caudillo's chubby behind. Producing a brand-new term to baffle international lawyers, Arriba declared that Spain was now a "moral belligerent...