Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While pious Japanese celebrated the rites of spring by making the traditional round of Buddhist temples and the tombs of their ancestors, thousands of Japanese "lowteen" girls in braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly" idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h...
...Herndon Jr., made the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean (1931), also flew and wing-walked for the famed Gates Flying Circus, ferried bombers and transports to England during World War II, demonstrated Designer Vincent J. Burnelli's Flying Wing; of a pulmonary infarction; in Manhattan. When Tokyo's daily Asahi offered $25,000 for the transpacific flight. Pangborn and partner took their Bellanca monoplane to Japan, ready to try. On arrival, they were clapped into jail as spies, for taking pictures. After a 21-day trial (total fine: $2,050), they took off. shed their landing...
Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician...
When Bill Jackson was not up in his C-47 last week, he was busy 1) watching bulldozers break ground for Tokyo's first English-speaking Baptist church, and 2) organizing an all-out evangelical campaign, "the biggest single effort in the history of Baptist foreign missions." Texas-born William Henry Jackson Jr., missionary and active reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, is planning his $200,000 church with all the U.S. trimmings-kitchens, dining hall, classrooms. As rotating pastors, he hopes to get "big Baptist churchmen" from the U.S. As for his choir, he needs "at least...
...degree at Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1951, was assigned to Japan, spent two years learning the language. Last fall a group of U.S. military people, calling themselves the Southern Baptist Military Fellowship, asked Jackson to help them organize an English-speaking Baptist church in Tokyo. The Jacksonian result: a whirlwind of preaching, fund-raising and organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church, he plans to spend $200,000 in advertising...