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- <title>
- Jan. 15, 1990: Died:George Clark Foster
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 51
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- <p> DIED. George Clark Foster, 68, oral surgeon who ran afoul
- of the Navy in 1947 for engraving "Remember Pearl Harbor" in
- Morse code on the false teeth he made for imprisoned Japanese
- General Hideki Tojo; of heart disease; in Pompano Beach, Fla.
- As a prank, Foster tattooed the false teeth for Tojo, who had
- asked for them so he could speak better in his defense at his
- trial for war crimes. The story was leaked, Foster was ordered
- to remove the offending message, and his commanding officer
- tore up papers for a commendation. Tojo was executed in 1948.
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- </article>
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