Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great characters in fiction enjoy this glorious distinction of seeming too lifelike to have sprung from an inkwell. Like Robinson Crusoe, they have often been modeled on real people. Now Irving Wallace, a Hollywood scenarist with a yen for bizarre personalities, has had the bright idea of telling the life stories of 20-odd famed originals. Among them...
Accounting. In Hamamatsu, Japan, police arrested Bank Clerk Mrs. Toshie Suzuki after she left a note for bank officials: "I took 1,000,000 yen [$2,778] from the vault, but felt that this was much too much for me, and I herewith return...
...Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyus, "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East"-that is, said Secretary of State Dulles, "for the foreseeable future." The U.S. military runs Okinawa and makes no bones about it. Even the currency is U.S. occupation yen, and though the Okinawans are theoretically Japanese citizens, they travel abroad on a certificate of identity issued by U.S. authorities...
...Circus" on Guadalcanal in World War II. Marine Air Force Captain Foss led a hell-for-baling-wire fighter squadron, became a top U.S. ace by downing 26 Japanese planes, for his hazards later was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. Added touch for Hollywood scenarists : Foss's yen to fly began when he was a farm boy of twelve, awesomely saw Charles A. Lindbergh, then touring the U.S. as the lionized conqueror of the Atlantic. Film's tentative title: Brave Eagle...
Last week Hoffner seemed content with the promise of $112,291 (the state could still appeal). "I've got a yen for Las Vegas-but I'm not going to gamble. And I'd like to go to Hollywood-I've heard so much about that kind of life." Soberly, Louis Hoffner concluded: "Then I'd like to find some legitimate business, maybe a liquor store. I'd like to enjoy life...