Word: okinawans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. An amiable U.S. Army captain, assigned as an occupation administrator, is presented with two respectable geisha girls as "souvenirs," and learns about the Okinawan way of life from them. Pleasant summer reading (TIME, June...
...Teahouse of the August Moon, by Vern Sneider. An amiable U.S. Army captain, assigned as an occupation administrator, is presented with two respectable geisha girls as "souvenirs," and learns about the Okinawan way of life from them. Pleasant summer reading (TIME, June...
Captain Jeff Fisby, an ex-pharmacist from Ohio, neither looked, felt nor behaved like a professional soldier. He was chubby and sloppy, and in his job as administrator of an Okinawan village he was shamelessly inefficient. When it came to carrying out Plan B, a scheme for re-educating the natives, he was a failure...
...clearly defined mission in the Army- he was reaching for the stars." Behind Purdy loomed the formidable figure of Mrs. Purdy, president of the Tuesday Club of Pottawattamie, Ind. It was she who had persuaded the colonel to organize a Woman's League for Democratic Action among the Okinawan ladies, and to suggest model menus for the league's meetings (chicken aspic and salmon loaf garnished with water cress, fruit compote and other delicacies...