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...pointers, the Japanese have sent two of their best teams, Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants and Lotte Orions, to train in Florida and Arizona respectively. As intended, their performances have given impetus to Japan's interest in internationalizing big league baseball and thus creating what Orions Chairman Nasaichi Nagara calls the "true World Series...
...south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River alone. Japanese railroads, cut in 120 places, virtually ceased to run. With more than 6,000 dead, injured, and missing, and more than 800,000 homeless, Vera became the worst storm to hit Japan since...
Houses in the Japanese manner are still rising more in California than in the rest of the country. In Pasadena, Architects Whitney Smith & Wayne Williams have designed homes with features as Japanese as a house on the Nagara. "We're not trying to hide anything," says Architect Williams. "We don't have an exposed beam suddenly stopped by plaster. The eye can follow the line right to its logical conclusion. There's so much chaos and confusion in the outside world today that a person has a right to peace in his own home." Adds Partner Smith...
Sent down to Turkey in 1915, Swing covered the Dardanelles attack. Later, crossing the Sea of Marmora on a Turkish freighter, the Nagara, he made a legend for himself. The freighter was overhauled by a British submarine. A Nagara officer frantically signaled Swing to do the talking. "Who are you?" demanded the sub commander, meaning "what ship?" Said the excited American landlubber: "I am Raymond Swing, of the Chicago Daily News." Kipling used it in his story of British subs...
...hunched in the stern of a fragile racing shell on the Thames, barking shrill orders at eight lusty Britons who thrashed the grimy water with long oars, was the cynosure of 500,000 pairs of eyes for a few minutes one afternoon last week. He, Prince Komarakul-Na-Nagara, was coxswain of the Oxford varsity crew and for most of the first quarter of the race, his men held the lead he had shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed there-one-third of a length at Hammersmith...
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