Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scion of a wealthy U.S. family -a young Yaleman, adept at billiards, girdling the globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
...Self-Addressed Envelope. Crestfallen George Morgan returned to the U.S. But in a year he was back, pleading again for 0-Yuki's hand. Once more she refused, and once more George left Japan, leaving behind this time a self-addressed envelope in case O-Yuki should change her mind. Then, without notice, 0-Yuki's law student quit school to marry a rich man's daughter; O-Yuki promptly mailed the envelope. Within 20 days, which was very good time in 1903, George was at her side...
...York Times later, "said that [George's father] disapproved the union." Whatever the reason, the newlyweds cut short their visit to Newport, and after a brief spell in New York, divided their lives between Yokohama and Europe's capitals. Twelve years later, in 1915, George Morgan dropped dead in Seville, leaving his widow an estimated...
...Morgan spent most of the next 23 years on the Riviera. When she returned to her native Japan in 1938, the nationalist press greeted her return with scorn. "Mme. Yuki," one paper snorted, "the Japanese who doesn't speak Japanese." Last week, however, all Japan was mooning over the tale of the little geisha who years ago had first snubbed and then snared the rich American. 0-Yuki's story had run an unprecedented 260 installments in three newspapers. The text was supported by pictorial tearjerkers, such as George and O-Yuki sleeping on Japanese-style mats...
Meanwhile he makes his headquarters in Morgan Hall with an arduous daily routine punctuated by cross-country telephone conversations and interviews with visiting firemen. He mixes a wicked martini (olive included) evenings 'at home.' Weekends with his wife Both he points his Cadillae toward Osterville on the Cape. There in a twelve-room hideaway (one forthcoming complete with tennis court will overlook the sea) he can unbend briefly. Dean David likes gardening: behind the custom-tailored exterior and million-dollar glad-hand he is fundamentally informal and original-thinking. "He works with stuffed shirts very well indeed," Associate Dean Stanley...