Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months after Pearl Harbor, the parishioners of Brooklyn's St. Rosalia's Roman Catholic Church watched sons and brothers going off to war-and promised each other that, when victory came, they would build a shrine to Mary, Queen of Peace. Under their pastor, Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi, they dug into pockets to raise the money. By last August, after nine years of planning and giving, St. Rosalia's parishioners had their triumph: dedication of their $2,000,000 Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, a Handsome stone building decorated with mural paintings by Italian artists and fitted...
...HIDDEN FLOWER (307 pp.)-Pearl Buck-John...
...Pearl Buck's latest, The Hidden Flower, preaches racial tolerance. Allen Kennedy is a young lieutenant in Japan. He meets pretty Japanese Josui, and they fall in love. Josui's parents object at first, but love triumphs and they get married. Alas, back in the U.S. Allen's biased mother will not receive Josui. For a while the couple tries to live in big-city isolation, but can't make a go of it. Josui runs away, has her baby, and sees it adopted by a kindly Jewish doctor. But Josui's life and Allen...
Lucille spent her childhood in Jamestown (1920 pop. 38,917), but managed to see very little of it. Mostly, she inhabited a dream world peopled by glamorous alter egos. Sometimes she imagined herself to be a young lady of great poise named Sassafrassa, who combined the best features of Pearl White, Mabel Normand and Pola Negri. Another make-believe identity was Madeline, a beauteous cowgirl who emerged from the pages of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel, The Light of Western Stars, To get authentic background for Madeline, young Lucille corresponded with the chambers of commerce of Butte and Anaconda...
Thus, ten years, four months, 21 days after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...