Word: tokyo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Making sure that U.S. newspapers noticed their annual convention in Portland next month, veterans of the island-hopping 41st Infantry Division issued a loud invitation to an old Pacific pal: Mrs. Iva Toguri D' Aquino, better known as the languid-toned Axis platter-puss, Tokyo Rose. Unperturbed by the fact that she would have to pay her own way from Chicago, Ex-Disk Jockey Rose said she would be interested- if some pesky federal deportation proceedings against...
...relief of Olivia Mary Galante," read the bill stuffed in the congressional hopper by Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter. The proposal: let Tokyo-born Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, wife of Paris Journalist Pierre Galante, keep her U.S. citizenship without spending at least 18 months of every five years in the U.S., as must all naturalized Americans. No movie buff, Congressman Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Act, who has kept a flinty eye on the foreign-born, seemed sure of Olivia's loyalty: "She is a lovely person, a very good American. She made...
Large & Small. Today Calder mobiles grace living rooms from Tokyo to Rio de Janeiro, hang in museums from Massachusetts to Moscow, enliven public and business buildings from Beirut to New York's International Airport (see color page). A water-ballet fountain performs at Detroit's General Motors Technical Center; a 21-ft. motorized, mobile-topped stabile called The Whirling Ear guards the outside pool of the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (Calder's commission: $10,000). Last week Mr. Mobile left his Roxbury studio and flew to Spoleto, Italy, to supervise the installation...
Overambition spells heavy losses for many a small airline that once did well. For years, Thai Airways flew two DC-48 along a neat little system spreading out from Bangkok to Tokyo and Calcutta; then after crashes in 1953, the line tried to break into the big time by ordering three big Lockheed Super-G Constellations. In service last year, the planes promptly started losing $350,000 a month for Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international...
Finger Exercise. In Tokyo, Detective Toshio Asanuma, whose special assignment was to prevent purse snatching on commuter trains, was arrested for snatching a purse on a crowded commuter train...