Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
Monday, April 22 Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). John Huston's The Barbarian and the Geisha stars John Wayne, not as the geisha. Color...
...stage. When they are one-quarter-inch long, they graduate to outdoor tanks and are fed clam eggs and larvae or brine-shrimp eggs. Then they move to the salt ponds, where they grow to delicious maturity on chopped trash fish and are fit for conspicuous consumption at elaborate geisha parties...
Everywhere he went, his tune was the same: "I want to try to change things, to use whatever influence I have for welfare, peace and the brotherhood of man." Everywhere he was on his best behavior. In Japan, he ignored geisha comforts for the sake of solemn discussions of international politics. In Israel, he drank honeyed tea, spent evenings visiting kibbutz farmers, mornings sunning himself in the private glory of red pajamas...
...gamble-which so far has cost Seibu $8,000,000-Tsutsumi is relying on a retailing formula that blends East and West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan. To provide this much Japanese...