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INVENTORS Keiji Koga, Hiroshi Shiraki, Let's Corp...
...HEIDE KOGA...
...Japanese baseball manager was hired by the minor-league Salinas Spurs to import that winning spirit to a lousy team. Result: at week's end the team was 5-27. Says Koga: "Our bats are a little slow...
...into four major groups, each with its own vice president as boss. Executive Vice President Latham Edgar Osborne, who has spent 42 of his 57 years at Westinghouse, runs the vital defense group, which includes atomic energy. The most profitable group, apparatus (heavy generators, transformers, etc.), is under John Koga Hodnette, 50, another Westinghouse veteran and a brilliant mechanical engineer (Alabama Polytechnic, '22) with a long string of patents. Virginia-born William White Sproul Jr., 45, an electrical engineer, bosses the general industrial-products group, which includes elevators, airconditioning, plastics, small motors, etc. Appliances are under consumer products...
Allied observers and Japan's civilians could only speculate on the rest: was Koga killed in the U.S. air and naval raids on Truk and Palau on March 29? Was he intercepted by U.S. fighters en route to some Pacific base? Or did he, as Chungking suggested, honorably disembowel himself presumably in protest against the last naval reshuffle (TIME...