Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Japanese invaded Java in 1942 von Koenigswald was a prisoner for three years. His precious bones were safe. The three Gigantopithecus teeth were hidden in a mile bottle with a Swedish friend.--Life...
...year after V-J day some Japs in Brazil were still convinced that Japan was undefeated. They had been told so by swindling fellow countrymen with a reason. The swindlers were still selling Java and Philippine victory stocks to gullible compatriots. They were using terrorism to keep the myth and their market alive...
...want to talk to our correspondent in Batavia, Java, his telephone number is (or was, recently) satuh duaw sambulan toojoo. Ask for Robert Sherrod-but don't expect him to be there...
...chose Java, and the Indonesian independence movement, for his first major assignment and, in the process of reporting that story, made two trips through territory forbidden to white men with Sjahrir, Indonesian premier. He also spent some time with rebel leader Soetomo, a fiery five-footer regarded by the Dutch as a most dangerous enemy. Soetomo's chief lieutenant was a pint-sized woman, about 50 years old, who said she was born on the Isle of Man, claimed U.S. citizenship through one of her marriages, and was variously known as Miss Tantri, Miss Daventry, Miss Merdeka (freedom...
...could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...