Like many American women during World War II, Dorothy F. Trebilcox (Eiland) wanted to be a part of the war effort. She found her opportunity by serving in the Red Cross in England. This book contains her numerous letters home, exactly as she wrote them, describing her life and adventures from 1944 to 1946. Leaving Sacramento by train, she describes the journey eastward, crossing the Atlantic under threat of U-boats, and daily life in the Red Cross in England during these tumultuous times.

Army Air Corps World War II veteran finishes seminary, is ordained, serves two churches, and enters the Navy Chaplaincy. This leads to field service in the Red Cross at military installations in Far East, U.S., Greenland, Europe, Vietnam; then Hawaii, Alaska and South Carolina. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard activities, all were part of his experience in service. With ideals of Henri Dunant, founder of international Red Cross in 1859, as guidelines and inspiration, Orey grows for 25 years in his humanitarian service adventures. Divorced and alone, he searches for a wife. Through lucky coincidences he finds the Japanese woman who became the love of his life. Against odds she reaches him on Okinawa from her college in Oregon, and they are married in an Air Force chapel, by a Navy Chaplain, bride on arm of senior Enlisted Aide to Ryukus High Commissioner, with Hawaiian Japanese Nisei matron of honor, New Caledonian bridesmaid, Japanese dentist best man, and University of Ryukus graduate Okinawan groomsman. From the top of the two-mile thick Greenland ice pack to the ravaged landscape of Vietnam's hot war; from Cold War Germany, and ancient capitals of Europe to womb tombs and lush coutryside and beaches of Okinawa; from the catacombs of the Via Appia near Rome to glaciers of Alaska his work took him to exciting places and interesting adventures.

Dave Brubeck's Time Out ranks among the most popular, successful, and influential jazz albums of all time. Released by Columbia in 1959, alongside such other landmark albums as Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Time Out became one of the first jazz albums to be certified platinum, while its featured track, "Take Five," became the best-selling jazz single of the twentieth century, surpassing one million copies. In addition to its commercial successes, the album is widely recognized as a pioneering endeavor into the use of odd meters in jazz. With its opening track "Blue Rondo à la Turk" written in 9/8, its hit single "Take Five" in 5/4, and equally innovative uses of the more common 3/4 and 4/4 meters on other tracks, Time Out has played an important role in the development of modern jazz. In this book, author Stephen A. Crist draws on nearly fifteen years of archival research to offer the most thorough examination to date of this seminal jazz album. Supplementing his research with interviews with key individuals, including Brubeck's widow Iola and daughter Catherine, as well as interviews conducted with Brubeck himself prior to his passing in 2012, Crist paints a complete picture of the album's origins, creation, and legacy. Couching careful analysis of each of the album's seven tracks within historical and cultural contexts, he offers fascinating insights into the composition and development of some of the album's best-known tunes. From Brubeck's 1958 State Department-sponsored tour, during which he first encountered the Turkish aksak rhythms that would form the basis of "Blue Rondo à la Turk," to the backstage jam session that planted the seeds for "Take Five," Crist sheds an exciting new light on one of the most significant albums in jazz history.