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...Tamio Okuda Comp As the Svengali behind J-pop girl duo Puffy, Tamio Okuda wrote and produced some of the freshest-sounding pop tunes heard anywhere on the planet in the late '90s. But Okuda, as a purveyor of old-fashioned guitar rock, has always been more comfortable just outside the mainstream. His tenth solo album, Comp, shows that he's still in fine form as he approaches 40. Baby Star is classic Okuda: cranked-up, driving, unembellished. The gentle final track, Fune ni Noru (On a Boat), helps takes the edge off an otherwise boisterous musical ride?one with...
...rear White House veranda Mrs. Hoover gave a tea last week. To it went as honor guests Yoshiro Ohta and Tamio Abe, Japanese team in the Davis Cup preliminaries. The same day, headlines screamed?DREADED JAPAN INVADER AT LAST ATTACKS CAPITAL! The "invader" was not the Japanese tennis players but Japanese beetles which had just been discovered in White House foliage. Department of Agriculture experts advanced upon the pests with chemicals...
...players were Yoshiro Ohta, Tamio Abe, John Hennessey, John Van Ryn. Their match was Japan v. the U. S. in the semi-finals of American Zone preliminaries for the Davis Cup. The U. S. won four of the five matches, but not without Japan's Ohta defeating John...
...blew little spirals of grey dust across the clay courts of the Chicago Town and Tennis Club William Tatem Tilden II served balls that traveled like gunshots toward a little figure hunched far back of the opposite baseline. The crashing serves generally came back gently, accurately; the little figure, Tamio Abe, champion of Japan, moved quickly from side to side, rarely forward-he knew he couldn't take the net against Tilden's drives, that the best he could do would be to take advantage of errors. Twice Tilden made double-faults and Abe broke through his service...
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