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Married. Fritzi Burger, Austrian ice-skating champion; and Shinkiki Nishikawa, grandson of Japanese Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto; in Vienna...
...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...
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Oysters make both Oriental and Mikimoto pearls. When Mother Nature annoys an oyster by permitting a tiny bit of some irritating substance to get under its shell, the oyster reacts by covering this substance with layer on layer of pearly nacre, and the result is called an Oriental pearl. When Mr. Mikimoto annoys the oysters in his 41,000 acres of oyster beds by having a minute substance delicately inserted in the body of each oyster, the oysters react by producing about $1,000,000 worth of Mikimoto pearls a year. In gratitude Mr. Mikimoto has erected a monument...
...Actually Mikimoto branches in Paris, London and Manhattan indicate that they are selling "cultured pearls," sell them for much less than the price of "real" Orientals.* In Japan spry Grandpa Mikimoto, 75, is the undisputed "Pearl King," purveys Mikimoto pearls to the Imperial Court. Speaking only Japanese and proud of his eccentricities, Pearl King Mikimoto loves to fete Occidental visitors to his pearl farm. First they are given baskets of Mikimoto oysters. Next Mikimoto minions open each guest's oysters, extract the pearls and present them to the guests, throw the oyster meat and shells away. Pearl King Mikimoto...