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Word: kentaro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until last spring, when Yoshimitsu was 21 and had reached a basketball coach's dream height of 7 ft. 2 in., did he get to a specialist (on a newsman's intervention). Said Dr. Kentaro Shimizu (5 ft. 4 in.), one of Tokyo's top brain surgeons: "These cases are so uncommon that any specialist would be happy to treat one." Installed in a specially built bed (8 ft. 6 in.) and swathed in a vast yukata (summer kimono) Yoshimitsu was X-rayed and tested to a fare-thee-well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Young Giant of Japan | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

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