Word: yamada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the embarrassed temple council set about saving face in the best Japanese tradition. Photographer Tsuchiya agreed to apologize publicly and destroy all his negatives. The two novices pictured most revealingly agreed to expulsion-and then reinstatement. Head Priest Mumon Yamada blamed it all on an influx of university-trained novices who lack moral fiber. Lamented Yamada: It was not so in the old days, when novices were poor boys without education or appetite for soft living...
...Costes, but he could not hold the pace. Behind him, and gaining steadily, was Hamamura, the tireless Japanese. When he passed the Leyden Congregational Church, Hamamura was in front. At Coolidge Corner, the last check point, he was right up with the course record set by his countryman, Keizo Yamada, in 1953. "Record, y'understan'? Record!" screamed a reporter from the press bus. Hamamura, who understood not a word, grinned back, a gold tooth glinting through the mist...
Hamamura sprinted across the finish line at the Lenox Hotel with such momentum that Mayor John Hynes had to run after him before he could crown him with the traditional laurel wreath. Hamamura's time: 2:18.22, just 29 seconds better than Yamada's record. Third, back of Pulkkinen, Nick Costes clocked the fastest American time (2:19.57) since Vic Dyrgall finished second in 1952. Way back in 24th place was U.S. Veteran John Kelley, 47, who earned the laurel wreath twice (1935 and 1945), in the days before the foreigners took over the Patriots' Day marathon...
...Chiswick, England, wiry (128 Ibs.) Jim Peters, 34, ran the fastest time ever recorded for the marathon distance of 26 miles, 385 yards. Peters covered the course in 2:18:40.2, nearly eleven seconds faster than the best previous time set by Japan's Keizo Yamada at the Boston Marathon last April...
...Keize Yamada, 25-year-old Japanese mining engineer, set a record yesterday by winning the Boston A.A. marathon in 2:18:51, six minutes, 48 seconds faster than the 1947 record set by a Korean...