Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slowly but purposefully, the Dominion Government has been washing its hands of its 12,000 Japanese. They were whisked off to relocation camps after Pearl Harbor; in the two years since war's end, Ottawa has pressured nearly 4,000 of them into moving back to Japan, has discreetly resettled most of the others.*By last week, the Government was down to the last damned spot-a stubborn little band of 59 in a camp just south of Moose Jaw, Sask. The spot would not come...
Acrobatic Anthropologist. Like another outstanding Negro dancer, Katherine Dunham, Pearl, now 27, is a serious student of anthropology which, she claims, has a direct bearing on her art. She is now working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have...
Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur's headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother...
...Died. Pearl L. Bergoff, 72, tough, unlettered Michigan boy who grew up to be the nation's most active strikebreaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Bergoff once offered management an expensive but efficient service: he would ship hired thugs to the scene of a strike, keep business moving with pate cracking and machine-gun fire until the union backed down. Driven out of business in 1936 by-federal legislation, Pearl retired, mellowed, announced last year: ". . . If I had my life to live over ... I'd be for labor, I'd be another John L. Lewis...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July...