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...Indian described the origin of the Native American Church (about 65,000 members). Last week the N.A.C. met near Tama, Iowa for its tenth annual convention, worried that white men and some of their fellow Indians are trying to take the gift of peyote away from them...
...Indian Reservation at Tama, Iowa, Charlie Davenport took a close look at the squaw corn,† noted that its husks were loose and thin, predicted that the U.S. would have a long Indian summer and that real winter would probably not set in until after Christmas...
...shows him the error of his Western ways by explaining that Japan's eventual domination of the world is all that really counts, and that Taro should join the Army. But Taro wants to join his U.S. friend, Engineer Clancy O'Hara (Don Douglas), marry his secretary, Tama (Margo), help his country by building public works. Taro is drafted anyhow. In China, Taro suddenly acquires a taste for torture, begins to believe that father was right. But by the time Taro gets home on leave, his father has done a remarkable turnabout, is now convinced that Japan...
...Japan, where half the book is laid, Iwan is soon soothed by the exquisitely regimented life of the Muraki family, surmounts exquisitely ruthless objections to marry their beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
...ring count for more than muscle, sumo performers eat gigantic meals and occasionally reach monstrous proportions. Biggest among current sumo celebrities is Dewagatake who, a pygmy compared to oldtime sumo giants, stands 6 ft. 8 in., weighs 350 lb. His girth is only 3½ ft. to Champion Tama-nishiki...