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...Crimson held off the Wolverines until midway through the final period, when Ben Kawa scored on a low screen shot at 8:35. Don Dufek, a 6 ft., 1 in., 195-lb. football star, knocked a rebound past Crimson goalie Brian Petrovek at 13:49 to knot the score...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: Icemen Drop Only One Vacation Contest... | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...Show. In Samoa, Henry Adams found it even harder to keep the mental fig leaf in place. He got mildly squiffed on a coconut brew called kawa. Assured that he wasn't a missionary, the native girls put on a dance. "Five girls came into the light, with a dramatic effect that really I never felt before. Naked to the waist, their rich skins glistened with coconut oil. Around their heads and necks they wore garlands of green leaves in strips, like seaweeds, and these too glistened with oil, as though the girls had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Us the Deluge | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

What Warriors Think About. Correspondent Norton-Taylor's favorite service acquaintances felt the same way about home. Red Quigley became a father at sea, and when the baby daughter's ringlet came from home it was bright red and father Quigley was very proud. Karl Kawa was a married machinist from Buffalo who had made a little model of the house he planned to build back home; the roof came off so that he could look inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look Homeward, Fighter | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Before Japan can get very far in her new friendship she must overcome: 1) Russian suspicion of Japan, and 2) Japanese suspicion of Russia. Last week, coincidentally with the press campaign, Foreign Minister Matsuoka named a new Ambassador to Moscow: Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tate-kawa. A leader in the anti-British campaign since 1937, skillful, politically ambitious General Tatekawa remarked: "The British are a crafty lot, smooth-spoken but always with something up their sleeves. I can get along with the Russians better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Strategy Reversed | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...several children. One of these, Chephren, built the second pyramid. His doughtiest daughter was Hetep-Heres II, a biological curiosity. Other Egyptians were swart and black-haired. She was blonde with reddish hair, probably inherited from foreign ancestors on her mother's side. She married her brother Kawa'ab, a dumpy, coarse man. He died. She married another brother, Radedef. He died. For her third husband she took Ankh-ha-ef, a nobleman outside the family. By Kawa'ab she bore Meresankh III, who grew up to be a small, black-haired woman. Hetep-Heres II also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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