Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bronze Ring. One of the last Americans to leave Japan before Pearl Harbor, Gilbertson enlisted in the Navy and was sent straight back to the Orient as an intelligence officer. After the war he stayed on for a year in Korea. Throughout his adventures, Gilbertson kept exploring the secrets of his craft. "In the Orient," he explains, "you can always find people who share your passion for ceramics and will discuss them by the hour. China has as many collectors of ceramics as we have chamber music fans...
...keep his art up to snuff, Gilbertson constantly measures it against the few classic pieces he brought back with him from the Orient. Like them, Gilbertson's own ceramics are deceptively simple in form and subtle in color, with the kind of restrained beauty that soon outgrows the merely decorative...
Native's Return. Muntz, born in Elgin, Ill., was 20 when he started his used-car business there. Seven years later he opened a lot in Los Angeles. As a speculation, he bought 13 new, war-stranded, right-hand-drive cars which had been built for the Orient, including a custom-built Lincoln intended for Chiang Kaishek. When Los Angeles papers ran stories about the cars, Muntz sold the entire lot in two weeks without even unpacking all the crates, made a tidy profit...
...nighttime when Dr. John Appleby, 61, a veteran surgeon of Bellevue, Ohio, stepped off the Orient Express in Vienna. There was no one to meet him because nobody expected him; he was simply another American doctor beating a path to Vienna to learn something of what can again be learned in the onetime capital of European medical science. Dr. Appleby took a cab to the newly opened clubrooms of the American Medical Society of Vienna. Next morning, after a minimum of red tape, he stood at the side of one of Vienna's leading surgeons during a difficult heart...
Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...