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At the request of her niece, Mrs. Sarah Morgan Gardner of Princeton, I located Mrs. Morgan in Kyoto in May of 1946 while serving in Japan with the Marine Corps. I found her through the St. Francis Xavier Church missionaries in that city, men who willingly testified to her devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Seek & Search. Iva Kitchell has nothing against any school of dancing ("I just think there's something completely ridiculous about anything that's too serious"). In one dance (called Oriental Dance by an Occidental Girl) she flips her fingers and toes and picks up a handkerchief with her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Impure Dancer | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Chile's Benjamin Alberto Cohen, flyweight diplomat, welterweight newsman, and heavyweight samba & rumba expert, heads the Department of Public Information, which distributes painfully impartial U.N. news to the world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Immigrant to What? | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

His medical studies in France three decades ago, and his French wife, had taught him much of Western culture. When he had returned to Indo-China he had successfully blended two careers: Occidental medicine and Oriental rice-growing. He had labored to preserve the best of both East and West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Death in the Monsoon | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

During the five years that he lived in the village of Sayan, plump, apple-cheeked Colin McPhee, 45, never succeeded in getting Balinese to like American music. But the ancient Oriental melodies which they beat from bronze gongs and piped from bamboo flutes won his Occidental ear. His Balinese memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tinkle on a Breeze | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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