Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve weeks, 1,500,000 words of testimony and 78¼ hours of deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw...
...remained to be done before official U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese "indigenous population" reflected democratic ideals. G.I.s are still not allowed to entertain Japanese friends in U.S. billets. Osaka's big new hotel, which houses U.S. officers and civilians, has a special side entrance for Japanese. Washrooms in Tokyo office buildings taken over by the Occupation forces are still marked: Officers, Enlisted Men, Japanese...
Task Force (Warner) is an ambitious, full-dress review of the ups & downs of U.S. naval aviation. Thanks to the practiced teamwork of Producer Jerry Wald and Writer-Director Delmer Daves (Destination Tokyo, Dark Passage), it is a thoroughly businesslike job. By playing up the facts and playing down the fiction, they have produced a film which at its best carries the conviction of a documentary and the impact of history in the making...
...late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends. Example: no sooner had Paramount proved that a spicy James M. Cain story like Double Indemnity could be put on the screen than Wald got to work on Cain's Mildred Pierce...
Hubert C. Armstrong, lecturer on Education. Former Director of Research, Civil Information and Education Section, Tokyo, and Adviser to the Korean Minister of Education...