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...Wise and Kawakami, once they got their net games working, became an excellent doubles combination, leading sweeps in the doubles competition in both the Dartmouth and Yale contests which closed the season...
...Clarke Kawakami, the captain and number two man, overcame inconsistency in the early going to have a good season. "Butch came on quite well toward the end, and played a great match against Yale," Wynn said of Kawakami. He played first doubles, with Eric Wise, the third singles man, who was probably the squad's most consistent player. Wise, Harvard's only loser at Brown, reversed that contest by winning the only match at Princeton. He had a 6-2 record...
...frosh tennis team overcame the absence of newly-elected captain Clarke Kawakami to coast to a 7-2 victory over Brown. The easy win gave the freshman netmen a 3-0 record. Larry Terrell, at first singles, led the way with a 6-0, 7-5 conquest of the Bruins' Malcolm Chester. Pete Abrams, playing in Kawakami's second singles slot, waltzed to a 6-2, 6-0 victory...
First, he spent $4,100,000 on a new wood drying facility, and his sawmill overnight became one of the most up-to-date of its kind. By using assembly-line techniques and various hurry-up tricks that would have shocked old-style instrumentmakers, Kawakami lowered the time needed to produce a piano from two years to three months. He does not feel that this produces the world's best piano, but with a shrewd eye for publicity he can point to the fact that his pianos are already used by Composer (Guys & Dolls) Frank Loesser, Fred Astaire...
...Kawakami is confident that he can sell all the pianos he can make. He is zeroing in on the growing Japanese market, where he already has 70% of the business, and expanding his U.S. sales force, which last year sold only 2,600 pianos (out of a U.S. total of 215,000). Because his production is automated, Kawakami can price his pianos at better than competitive levels: a Yamaha grand, for instance, sells for less than $2,000 in the U.S., as much as 50% lower than comparable U.S. makes. What now disturbs Kawakami is not competition but the present...