Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lieutenant colonel who had escaped from the Japanese and was hiding in a Malayan mangrove swamp, wrote a letter to the Japanese occupation governor. Would His Excellency be so good as to mail to London the Englishman's diaries, which had been taken from him by his former Jap captors...
...band employed by a rich eel merchant to drum up business. By 1925, Hattori was so expert on flute and oboe that the Osaka Symphony Orchestra hired him. But jazz looked more profitable, and Hattori quit the symphony to organize the most famous of early Jap jazzbands, "Hattori and His Manila Red-Hot Stompers...
Down with the Green-Blues. One day in 1947, Hattori saw some Japanese couples trying to jitterbug to the slow, sickly sort of green-blues which most Jap jazz-composers were turning out. He decided "to break away from kurai ongaku [dark music]," wrote Tokyo Boogie-Woogie. It hit, and boogie began to beat all over Japan...
...however, does not mean much to a Jap songwriter. Because of a record shortage and slow sheet-music sales, Hattori makes only about 7,000 yen ($16.66) a song. Last month he wrote 20, including several for his movie biography, Eternal Enthusiasm...
When he is brought back to his Pacific base from a dangerous mission to a Jap-held island, the Negro G.I., Moss (James Edwards), is Suffering from shock, which has paralyzed him from the waist down. Under the care of a sympathetic Army psychiatrist, Moss fumbles back through the fogs of amnesia to what happened on the island. He recalls his hatred of a Negro-baiting corporal (Steve Brodie), and his resentment of all white men, even his friends (Lloyd Bridges and Frank Lovejoy...