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Tama-nishiki weighs 300 lb., wears his hair curled in a knot on top of his head, dresses in a 15-lb. fringed apron and an enormous belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years...
Before matches, all contestants hold a dance called dohyo-iri (ring entry) wearing damask aprons embroidered to indicate their rank. Next they assure audiences of their sincerity by putting their left hands on their hearts, stretching out their right. After bending his knees, clapping his hands three times, spreading his arms out straight, shaking each leg, a wrestler removes his apron, purifies himself by putting salt on himself and the ring. Only then can the match start...
...President of the Council James Ramsay MacDonald, diplomatically stayed at home visiting with Daughter Sheila. Not present was Daughter Ishbel who did such a rushing business during the weekend at her 300-year-old Plow Inn in High Wycombe (TIME. Dec. 2) that she was obliged to don an apron, help wait on such distinguished guests as the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham...
...just been reading about you," and he picked from the seat upon which he was riding in the car your magazine of Sept. 16 and brought it to my attention and in which was the article and the picture of myself standing in the kitchen of my trailer with apron on and frying pan in hand...
...Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers from Stephen C. Clark of New York, Birthplace...