* Gwendolyn Harold Terasaki; Author of 1957 Best-Seller
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Gwendolyn Harold Terasaki, 84, whose book “Bridge to the Sun” became a best seller and a 1961 movie, starring Carroll Baker and James Shigeta. Mrs. Terasaki, a native of Johnson City, Tenn., married Japanese diplomat Hidenari Terasaki in 1931. After Pearl Harbor the couple spent World War II in Tokyo, and “Bridge to the Sun,” published in 1957, detailed the family’s wartime experiences from a pro-Japanese point of view. On Saturday in Casper, Wyo.
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