Word: geishas
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...There is no objection to Rooney's wearing his Bronze Star, but I do claim that every fraternizing fraulein in Germany and every geisha girl in Japan should get the same award. After all, they entertained the troops...
Well, things have certainly picked up for us old beat-up, guinea happy, flip chasin', atabrine eatin', female hungry, geisha huntin' G.I.s. I'm writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware...
...even advise, much less control, Douglas Mac Arthur. Its U.S. liaisons will be with the White House, the State Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Soon British, Chinese and Russian troops-possibly a division of each-will land in Japan to share the burdens, the discomforts, and the geisha girls. But MacArthur's directives will continue to come from the U.S., and the U.S. will continue to make overall Jap occupation policy...
...leaders were promoting a loo-million-yen ($650,-500) amusement center for U.S. troops. It would provide billiards, rifle shooting, golf, tennis, fried fish, sweet bean soup, tea and souvenirs. An entertainment association advertised for 5,000 professional hostesses and 3,000 women entertainers, including dancers, waitresses and daruma geisha. As distinguished from real geisha, who excel at conversation, the daruma geisha are named after daruma dolls, which have round, weighted bases and push over easily...
From Seoul, LIFE Photographer George Silk cabled: "I am writing this during a party in Korea's leading geisha house. The party is the third in a succession of 51 such parties. In the last few weeks 51 Korean political organizations have mushroomed and each tried to reach American military authorities. Failing, they are entertaining the U.S. press. Some of the new parties' names: Republican, Democratic, Communist, New Korea, Party for the Control of Law and Order, and Party for Cooperation with the Party for the Control of Law and Order...