Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japanese women's relay team. (Atsuko's father, Chuhei Nambu, now an Osaka sportswriter, was the Olympic hop-step-jump champion in 1932). Other standouts in Manila...
Just out of Brown University ('16), Hughes went to work for New York's National City Bank, put in ten years at foreign branches (Shanghai, Osaka, Bombay and London) and, later, 17 years as comptroller. In 1951 he became vice president (reportedly at $50,000-plus a year), but left last year to understudy Dodge in the budget bureau...
...described in the newspapers as "ogres") at the age of three, because they kept him trussed up like a ham and suspended from a beam in the living room. By the time he was twelve, Kikuta had gone through six foster fathers; the last one sold him to an Osaka pharmacist for $50. Escaping, Kikuta finally made his way to Tokyo, landed a job as assistant scriptwriter for a third-rate girlie show in the capital's bawdy Asakusa district. During the war, he spent three months in South China as a historian for the Japanese navy, writing patriotic...
...photograph pinned up in the mess hall. "I wish I could have seen more of the boys," she purred. Returning to Japan, she was briefly bussed by her groom, ex-New York Yankee Outfielder Joe DiMaggio, who somewhat obliquely announced to her: "I've found a place in Osaka that has a very good pizza...
...25th Infantry Division have contributed more than $130,000 for an orphanage in Osaka, Japan, and many of them visit it on leave from the-front...