Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also found that many a passenger grumbled about the offhand, grudging service Northwest gave its passengers. Nyrop played to the passengers' fancy with a host of new gimmicks that stress Northwest's "Orient" flavor. He put on Nisei and Chinese-American girls as stewardesses on domestic hops, decked first-class planes with flowers and gave passengers wintergreen-scented hot and cold towels (an old Oriental custom for soothing tired businessmen). Taken together, the changes did much to soothe Northwest Airlines...
...swivel hips belong to Singer Pat Suzuki, and, like Miyoshi, the chubby Nisei is bouncing through her first Broadway part. Whatever else may be said for or against Flower Drum Song, it brings to Broadway two of the most endearing stars in many a season-surrounded by a fascinating Oriental chorus line that will give the most jaded Stage-Door Johnnies a new incentive...
Along with the rest of the Suzuki family, Pat was shipped to the Amache relocation camp at Lamar, Colo. There life was a matter of school as usual. She did not sing much, and about the only memories she has are of thunderstorms, dust storms, and the Nisei boy scouts who went out every morning in the shifting sand to raise the American flag...
Waiting for R. & H. "I was a big slob," says Pat of her days at San José State. Translated by a friend, this means that she was a nonconformist Nisei. "Pat and I ran around with Caucasians," says the friend. The strained social relations resulted in many heartaches, and when the hurt was deep enough, Pat became deeply Japanese. Once when a boy she was fond of threw her over, Pat sliced off the ponytail hairdo that has since become her trademark. "I'm shorn of my pride anyway," she said, "so I cut my hair." Her parents...
Married. Harry Bridges, 57, boss of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; and Noriko Sawada, 35, Nisei secretary; after difficulty with a Nevada miscegenation law; in Reno (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...