Word: kobe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five charities will benefit from Radcliffe's Combined Charities Drive starting today and running through Friday. Students will be asked to contribute to one or all of the listed organizations; the Boston Community Fund. Children's Medical Center, Kobe College is Japan, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Student, and the World Student Service Fund...
Antidote. In Kobe, Japan, when Pickpocket Yoshio Abe complained of a stomachache, police gave him a dose of castor oil, recovered the stolen watch he had swallowed...
From Osaka and Kobe to Tokyo, up & down the Ginza (Tokyo's Broadway) and through the Shinjuku (Tokyo's Montmartre), half-educated trumpets got in their licks, and demi-lingual cries, Tokyo boogie-woogie, rhythm uki-uki, Kokoro zuki-zuki, waku-waku, jarred the night. Pickup bands were a yen a dozen, and most Japanese seemed to have the yen. They liked it blue, hot, and syrup-sweet, and called it all jazzu...
Congratulations on your article on Japan [TIME, May 9]. It presents a vivid and wellbalanced picture of conditions as I observed them on a recent educational mission, which included Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kobe and Yokohama. I heartily concur in the praise of General MacArthur's leadership...
Social life for young women in Japan remains extremely limited. College girls would never be permitted to attend a dance. When a group of American G. I's from the occupation forces attempted to get the president of Kobe to hold a dance in the gymnasium last year, Miss Tambe related, the president put an unconditional "no" on the proposal. There's a limit to progress...