Word: cooks
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...even more Japanese than the Japanese themselves. They claimed that Provoo often said he hoped the Japanese would win the war and that he called Emperor Hirohito "the essence of divinity." Corporal Robert Brown testified that Provoo hit him in the face because he did not know how to cook tempura (Japanese fried fish or shrimps) and declared that "all American women on Corregidor should be turned over to the Japanese for immoral purposes." Once, said Brown, he followed Provoo to the top of a hill where Provoo, clad in a shroud, "let out those wild Buddhist chants...
Through storm and calm, for 10,000 miles, he sailed across two oceans. From Wellington, New Zealand to the Charles River, the Cook Islands' Chief Surgeon, his wife, two sons, and two crewmen lived for five months a cramped and uncomfortable life aboard a 48 foot ketch...
Like most Polynesians, the Cook Islanders have a high tuberculosis rate, but Dr. Davis has found that they seem to have developed a resistance like that of Europeans: they form scar tissue and recover. They also have hookworm, and filariasis (the "mumu" of South Pacific G.I.s), which may reach the stage of elephantiasis...
...Within 24 hours he was elected president of his class, and so became the guest of honor at a big beer party in the austere lobby of Harvard's dignified School of Public Health. The student was Dr. Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis, 34, of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and few scholars ever had better excuse for being tardy. Dr. Davis had sailed 11,000 miles from New Zealand to the Charles River in his 48-foot ketch Mini, and had been beset by storms...
...Welshman and a Polynesian noblewoman, Dr. Davis went to New Zealand when he was eleven. He got his M.D. in 1943, was a house surgeon in Auckland, practiced psychiatry in Dunedin and studied tropical medicine in Sydney before he went back to the Cook Islands with his New Zealand wife. There he found only eight health workers, none of them medical graduates, to care for 16,000 people on 15 islands. scattered over 300,000 square miles of the Pacific...