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Salvage Artist. The man behind Honda's meteoric rise is balding, energetic Soichi Honda, 55. A blacksmith's son, Honda quit school to become an auto mechanic, by 27 had his own garage with 50 helpers. Before World War II, he switched over to manufacturing piston rings, but his business faltered-which he blamed on his own lack of schooling. To salvage his firm, Honda enrolled in a technical school at night, continued to run the business by day. The company soon got on its feet, only to be knocked flat by a U.S. air raid...
...Soichi Saito, national secretary of Japan's Y.M.C.A., and the second male Japanese to visit the U.S. since the war,* gives his Report on Japan...
Best team last week was Soichi Sakamoto's Hawaii University Swim Club (TIME, July 29), which picked up right where it left off in 1941. Led by sprint champ Bill Smith, it swept the meet easily...
That ambition first hit Soichi Sakamoto a decade ago, when he was teaching grade school on the Hawaiian island of Maui. He knew nothing about swimming except what he had learned as a scoutmaster, teaching lifesaving. "I read some books on swimming but it didn't do any good," he says, "so I started just using common sense." Common sense consisted of rounding up the best young prospects on an island where kids are naturally amphibious, then straightening out their faults. His first pupils, who could not afford to use private pools, swam their time trials in irrigation ditches...
...basis of such showings, some of Soichi Sakamoto's boys looked like sure shots for the Olympics. But for the coaching job Sakamoto himself probably had little chance against Yale's four-time Olympic Coach Bob Kiphuth...