Word: gauntlett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo bureau's Man Friday is an experienced young journalist named George Trevor Wykeham Gauntlett, a half-English, half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention...
...Japan, where language difficulties and other barriers make the correspondent's job one of the most difficult anywhere, it would be virtually impossible to do your work without a Gauntlett at your elbow. Thanks to his unique lineage, his experience as a reporter in Japan, and his contacts, Gauntlett is, as his bureau chief says, "the hub of TIME'S Tokyo bureau...