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...World Lightweight Champion Carlos Ortiz: his first defense of the title he won from Joe Brown last April, by trouncing Japan's Teruo Kosaka before 8,000 spectators in a Tokyo sumo wrestling hall. The 135-lb. Ortiz toyed with the windmilling Japanese challenger for four rounds, put him neatly away after 2 min. 32 sec. of the fifth. The fans applauded politely, rose from their straw mats, put on their shoes and went home...
...From Ensign Teruo Yamaguchi to his father: "As death approaches, my only regret is that I have never been able to do anything good for you in my life . . . My greatest regret is [my] failure to call you chichiue [revered father]. I regret not having given any demonstration of the true respect which I have always had for you. During my final plunge, though you will not hear it, you may be sure that I will be saying chichiue to you and thinking of all you have done...
...Astra. In Tokyo, after he clambered up the 100-ft. smokestack of the Central Post Office wearing a Santa Claus costume, unfurled a huge banner touting a nightclub Christmas party and was dragged back to earth by guards, Adman Teruo Sawashige explained to law officers: "I was told to do something extra novel...