Word: swam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kazuko was living alone with her second husband, Kikuichiro, on tiny (2 mi. by 5 mi.) Anatahan Island in the Marianas when the survivors of three bombed Japanese ships swam ashore in 1945. For three years the couple lived with the castaways, until one day Kazuko's husband was murdered. "I felt lonely," says Kazuko, and she took up with one of the castaways. After 20 days of bliss, her lover was drowned. She went to live with another, the man who had killed her husband. "At first I repelled him coldly, but a weak woman is no match...
There were no parodies. Nobody swam the Charles. And no drunks ran across the gridiron. Dull is the only word...
...hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus. She kept going over land & sea until she reached the Nile...
During World War II, when her second husband. Producer Richard Aldrich, became a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, Gertrude flew to London, played before factory workers and troops. She crossed to Normandy in the wake of the invasion and swam ashore in her brassiere and a pair of trunks borrowed from cheering U.S. sailors...
...corresponded, and then Frank followed his heart and his aspirin bottle to Kerry. The press on both sides of the Atlantic tried to fan the romance into flame. Back in the U.S. last week, Frank suggested that the press had tried too hard. Said Frank: "The papers said she swam out to get my bottle when she really found it on the shore-and she was insulted...