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Word: iva (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven Tokyo Roses who had broadcast to U.S. troops, she was the only American. Her real name was Iva Toguri. Born in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916, she was like most first-generation Japanese-Americans, more American than Japanese. She went to movies and the races, hero-worshiped James Stewart, as a coed at U.C.L.A. noisily rooted for the football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Your Old Friend | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Iva was in Tokyo, either caring for an ailing aunt (according to her) or studying medicine (according to the Government). In November 1943, she went on the air with her slangy, vernacular American, identified herself as "your favorite enemy, Orphan Annie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Your Old Friend | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...slightly different line, dance humorist Iva Kitchell is currently performing at Jordan Hall. The world of the cinema offers a little of everything this weekend, with a selection from Sabu to Shakespeare playing in the vicinity. The latter is represented with two productions, Laurence Oliver's magnificent Hamlet, and Orson Welles' less successful Macbeth, playing at the Astor and Esquire respectively. Sabu gets in his licks with the return to town of his ancient classic Drums, which is billed with yet another tale of the Black Heart of Africa, Alexander Korda's Four Feathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Entertainment | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Not Mad at Texas | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Divorced. Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, 47, dapper, Russian-born president of Condé Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour): by Nadejda Gelli-brand Patcevitch, beauteous onetime Vogue (of London) staffer; after fifteen years of marriage, no children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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