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...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 younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round robin. Not he but Omekawa, potbellied youngster who had won nine of his ten matches, opposed undefeated Gargantuan Tama-nishiki...
...sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders to the mat but to: 1) make him touch ground with any part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push...
...Tokyo fortnight ago 10.000 sumo addicts, including nobility, geisha, schoolboys, government officials, watched the matches on each of the ten days of the Kokugi-kan tournament. Outside the arena, thousands more bet on the matches, followed the results on score boards. Of the money spent for tickets, the performers got a trifling share. As stupid as they are immense, sumo performers are content with a maximum pay of $100 a month augmented only by gifts of swords, bottles of sake, new aprons from generous admirers. Four years ago, a sumo strike for better pay, shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual...
...relations between Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., an affiliate of Columbia Gas & Electric, and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. This latter company was the major operating unit for Frank P. Parish's famed Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co., which in 1930 thousands of Market speculators referred to as Mo-Kan, at first with affection, later with despair. Promoter Parish planned to pipe natural gas from Amarillo, Tex. to Indianapolis, a distance of some 1,250 miles. Since pipe lines cost! anywhere from $22,000 to $40,000 a mile, Mr. Parish had on his hands a most ambitious undertaking. Running...
...Marion, Kan., when his truckload of 77 bales of hay caught fire, John Spachek speeded up his truck, hit all bumps, bounced off all 77 blazing bales...