Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick Nevada wedding. For another, as besieging newspapermen pointed out when Bridges jauntily introduced them to his bride-to-be next morning, the archaic, unchallenged Nevada law forbade it. The future and third Mrs. Bridges, 35-year-old Noriko Sawada, a dainty, dignified San Francisco law secretary, is a Nisei...
Concrete & Paper Fans. Minoru Yamasaki's $1,172,000 conference building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is in love both with Western technology and Oriental refinement. His crisp little temple of talk, set beside a reflecting pool, owes a lot to the Taj Mahal, something to Japanese paper fans, and most of all to modern engineering in glass and concrete. Yamasaki puts precision over ornamentation and lets...
What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...
...confused with Shin Buddhism, a liberal, elastic sect which comprises most of the 60,000 Buddhists in the U.S., a majority of them West Coast Nisei...
Married. James Michener, 48, novelist (The Bridges of Toko-ri), connoisseur of things Japanese (The Floating World), 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner for Tales of the South Pacific; and Colorado-born Nisei Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, 35, assistant editor of the American Library Association Bulletin; he for the third time, she for the first; in Chicago...