K.P.Kollenborn

Myrtle Goldfinger was caught in a confused cultural dichotomy: She was born in Tokyo but moved to Southern California with her Japanese parents when she was just a year old.   She looked Japanese, but her attitude was pure American.  She was gorgeous by many counts, but not her own, because having grown up in Hollywood in the 1930s, her idea of beauty was all-white, all-American. Even in old age, Mrs. Goldfinger wouldn't leave the house without first putting on eye makeup to make her eyes look wider, said her daughter-in-law, Danna Kostroun. "People don't want to see Asians," she'd say in declining an   invitation   to attend, for example, a grandchild's music recital. Mrs. Goldfinger married twice, and both of her husbands were white Americans. Her son, Marian University political scientist Johnny Goldfinger, recalled that when he married Kostroun, a white woman from Ithaca , N.Y. , "it was the happiest day of (his mother's) life."  But desp

. Exclusive to the National Constitution Center's showing of 'Spies, Traitors, and Saboteurs,' visitors can view glass and granite fragments from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, as well as a shoe that was recovered from the wreckage, on  loan  from the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.  ( CAROL H. FEELY, CONTRIBUTED PHOTO  /  March  12 , 2011 T wisted pieces of metal, salvaged from planes that struck the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 are stark testimonials to the deadliest act of terrorism on American soil in the 21 s t  century. But they're just one chapter of a larger story being told at the National Constitution Center in  Philadelphia . "Spies, Traitors & Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America" details many more events and time periods in which Americans have been harmed by enemies within the country's borders. They range from a Revolutionary War plot t