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...Pearl Island, Toba Harbor, Japan, Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto celebrated a memorial service for hundreds of millions of "souls" departed from "martyred" oysters, then rehearsed his own funeral service...
Married. Fritzi Burger, Austrian ice-skating champion; and Shinkiki Nishikawa, grandson of Japanese Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto; in Vienna...
...friendly little Katsuji Debuchi, who has been recalled as Japan's Ambassador to the U. S., presented the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with a two-foot replica of George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, made of mother-of-pearl and 13,000 pearls. A gift of Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese cultivated pearl tycoon, it had been part of his firm's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair...
Gathered around the furnace were Japan's leading pearl dealers. "Banzai!" they shouted. "May you live 10,000 years, oh Most Honorable Kokichi Mikimoto! Banzai! The price of pearls has risen!" The price had risen some 30%. the dealers agreed, all because Kokichi Mikimoto had shoveled 720,000 pearls into a furnace...
...jammed against a post. Next day, his broken wrist in a cast, Horton Smith saw Burke go two extra holes to beat Tomekichi Miyamoto, Japanese champion in 1929 and 1930, who had come over for the winter season with two other crack Japanese pros, Rakuzo Asami and Kokichi Yasuda...