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With a good eye for detail, Mr. Gunther remembers a Tokyo night-club sign in English: WINE WOMEN SONG AND WHATNOT. Illustrating Japanese lack of tact: Geisha girls, entertaining a U. S. naval officer who had been on the U. S. S. Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the Japanese, kept repeating all evening: "Panay! Panay! So sorry! So sorry!" Typical Japanese Army reasoning: Capitalism is responsible for communism, hence to defeat communism capitalism must be overthrown. Author Gunther also picked up a warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well...
...fish from France's inland waters. In Brittany it is the time for spring pardons-the old, unique, Breton folk custom that permits the peasant to approach the Deity through various saints, and which means a season of blessings, benedictions, reunions, torchlight parades, holidays, betrothals, marriage contracts, singing, wine and forgiveness...
...They include 734,000 tractor drivers, 165,000 combine operators, 124,000 chauffeurs. Last year rural districts bought 225,000 tons of household soap, 82,000,000 Ibs. more than they bought the year before. They bought 73,000 more tons of confectionery, spent 104,000,006 rubles for wine, banked 347,000,000 more rubles, used 24% more sugar, spent 16.3% more for manufactured goods, bought twice as much cotton goods as they had in 1933, bought from their cooperatives 250,000 bicycles, 200,000 phonographs...
...Mail's, Royd Beamish, who wrote of the Royal Banquet at Quebec: " 'Neath the turreted roof of a Norman castle, where once the Canada of long ago had its seat of Government, the King and Queen had dined [from the breasts of 2,000 snowbirds]. . . . The wine glasses were filled and Lieutenant-Governor Patenaude stood to propose the age-old toast, heard nightly across one-fourth the globe: 'Gentlemen, the King.' . . . From some far corner of that spacious ballroom a strong male voice sounded, rich and true...
Cincinnati is a musical city. It owes its music to the influx of German refugees (after Germany's revolution of 1848) whom the yellow Ohio River reminded of the Rhine. With them to Cincinnati they brought Moselle and Riesling wine grapes, which they planted in the surrounding hills, and traditional German love of music. The grapes did not turn out well, but the love of music soon began to bear...