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...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...
Three weeks ago Mrs. Yamada, who is president of the National Association of Mothers' and Children's Clubs, carried her crusade into a meeting of the association's local chapter in the city of Isezaki. To Isezaki's clubwomen Mrs. Yamada shrilled, "No concubine is fit to be a member of a women's organization." Taking Mrs. Yamada at her word, the respected chief secretary of the Isezaki chapter, 39-year-old Nami Marata, remorsefully decided to resign. Nami, as everyone in the Isezaki chapter knew, is the mistress of a wealthy merchant...
...outraged. At a stormy general meeting they agreed that, "We can't stand quietly by while Nami, who worked so hard for the organization, is kicked out merely because she's a concubine." When a small minority of the chapter's members persisted in supporting Mrs. Yamada's anti-concubine stand, all eleven of Nami's fellow officers resigned their positions in a huff. But before the meeting adjourned, the pro-Nami majority spiritedly resolved that concubines had a right to belong to the chapter, that concubine-keeping men were as much to be censured...
President Yamada, unimpressed by the resolution, stuck to her guns. Said she, "Before women start blaming the men, they should reflect on themselves...