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From that point, Harvard's defense took over and choked off the Brown attack, including star forward Vic De Jong. After Pell's goal, the Brown defenders also tightened up, and the last two periods were played largely at the center of the field...
Getchell describes Brown as "very skillful. The Bruins are led by Vic De Jong, a forward from the Netherlands. Comparative scores are little help in predicting the game's outcome: Brown beat Connecticut and Andover 4-0 and 3-1 respectively, while Harvard's margins of victory were...
...tiny Hofker Hotel are occupied by NAM, half by Caltex. After dinner, each side glares at the other in the lobby; at night, the prospectors push their beds across their doors to guard maps and working papers. After technicians from Socony Mobil Oil checked into the adjacent Hotel De Jong, scouts from Caltex and NAM began to frequent the De Jong bar, hoping to pick up valuable slips of the tongue. Last week British Petroleum and a party of French seismologists also landed...
Archbishop Bernard Jan Alfrink, 59, comes from The Netherlands town of Nijkerk. Five years ago he succeeded the late John Cardinal de Jong as Archbishop of Utrecht. The scholarly archbishop has been chief counselor to the pontifical commission for Biblical studies, contributes to scientific publications, heads The Netherlands' "Pax Christi" movement of Roman Catholic laymen. In addition to pleasing the Dutch, his appointment is expected to add an able member to the team of cardinals preparing for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council...
Wodehouse laments the fact that "the Edwardian butler . . . has joined the Great Auk, Mah Jong and the snows of yesterday in limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made...