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...Grolier Book Shoppe is open most of the time, excepting the few times a year Cairnie gets the yen for leisure and runs off to New Hampshire. To those who are interested, the management has extended the invitation to drop in for a quiet browse. Only don't ask for Muzzey's "American History." They...
...younger, less durable friend followed on a bicycle, but Matsumoto breezed into Tokyo with enough wind left to tell startled bystanders about his run. He also wheezed a challenge: at a Shirakawa shrine festival he would lift a 70-kan (579-lb.) stone, would give a prize of ten yen (65?) to anyone who could lift more. Sneered Matsumoto: "Youngsters these days are too soft...
...play down the first U.S. visit of British Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Just a friendly call, said Harry Truman. Uneasy Monty, whirled through a hectic tour last week of U.S. military posts, donned his chattiest air of idle curiosity. But the yen to talk turkey about U.S.-British strategy was as plain as the eight rows of ribbons on Monty's chest...
Please a G.I. The American occupation was no ill wind to Mikimoto. He began selling pearls from his hoard to G.I.s. When black-market prices soared to 30,000 yen ($2,000) for a string, U.S. authorities stepped in, ordered Mikimoto and other Japanese pearlers to sell only to the U.S. Army for sale in post exchanges. Prices now vary from 300 to 2,000 yen a string...
Mikimoto has already sold half his stock. But necklaces sold for 8,000 yen in Tokyo have fetched 15 times that in New York, so he is saving his best strings for the time when Japan can ship abroad...