Word: iva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...
They were all known as Tokyo Rose-the dozen or so women who broadcast from Japan to World War II G.I.s in the Pacific. The most notorious was Iva Toguri d'Aquino, an American citizen visiting Tokyo who was interned by the Japanese during the war and forced, she claimed, to go on the air. Several defense witnesses attested that this was true, but because D'Aquino had asked the G.I.s how they would get home "now that your ships are sunk," she was convicted of treason in 1949 after her return to the U.S. She served more...
...away at their morale. In fact, there never was a Tokyo Rose. The name was given by GIs to twelve or more English-speaking women who, beginning in 1942, regularly broadcast out of Tokyo and other points. By her own admission, one of the sultry voices belonged to Mrs. Iva Toguri d' Aquino, now 59, who operates a gift shop in Chicago-and is still thought of by some as Tokyo Rose...