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While spring is the main season for rugby, last autumn's team had a floating membership of about 40 players, of which only five were freshmen chasing after the ever-elusive P. T. credit. Besides Captain Rob Albert, Terry Turner, al Ellis, Jorg Hardoy, and Martin Lindsay, all players with experience ranging up to Harrods's 13 years of play in Argentina assisted with the coaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/16/1954 | See Source »

...This recent boast by President Quezon, to a crowd in front of his handsome Malacanan Palace, referred to the fact that, during his absence in the U. S. and Europe, he was running the Philippines from the U. S. by radio telephone messages to his moon-faced little secretary Jorg Vargas, the U. S. Supreme Court in Washington had approved the constitutionality of giving the Philippines the $50,000,000 (100,000,000 pesos) proceeds of the coconut oil processing tax which the U. S. imposed in 1934. So President Quezon, although he bitterly opposed the original imposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...christened Elsa von Wenden, began drawing at the age of three, illustrated the Bible and Oliver Twist (as told by her sister) at six. At 17 she married Jorg von Reppert-Bismarck, not many years her elder, whose great-grandfather was the great Bismarck's first cousin. Her husband gave her the nickname "Jack" which she signs to all her paintings, and which he pronounces "Jake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Jack | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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