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...undefeated, two-year-old Native Dancer, the $107,545 Belmont Futurity, in the world-record-equaling time of1 min. 14 2/5 sec. for 6½ furlongs; on the Widener Course straightaway at Belmont. Odds-on choice at 1 to 3, the dark grey colt (by Polynesian, out of Geisha) brushed his opposition aside in the stretch to win his eighth straight race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Made in Japan | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and, thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of re-education of its own (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 20, 1951 | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and,thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of reeducation of its own (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. The U.S. Army sets out to re-educate an Okinawan village and, thanks to ingrained Okinawan philosophy and a couple of geisha girls, gets a dose of re-education of its own (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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