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...Harvard squad finished fourth ong the Ivies in the tourney. The var-y had a 4-6 overall season's record this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen Slip To Tenth in Rounds | 3/13/1961 | See Source »

...years ago Pianist Fou Ts'Ong, one of Communist China's brightest cultural lights, was sent to Britain for a concert. Instead of going home, he defected and immediately found refuge in the London home of middle-aging (44) Vio lin Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. There he met Menuhin's dreamy-eyed daughter Zamira (whose name means "peace" in Russian and "nightingale" in Hebrew). When Zamira, now 21, was born, her father said, "I want this baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity." Zamira did not grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 2, 1961 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...wealthy children. One eleven-year-old boy is still missing after seven months, and a merchant named Koh Eng Pang bled to death in the front seat of his car after trying to fight off a kidnaper's ambush. More typical of the pattern was the case of Ong Cheng Siang, the chairman of a bus company, who disappeared last April while on the way home in his Mercedes-Benz. From the kidnapers the family got his car keys and a terse set of instructions. After paying a record $170,000 ransom, they got Ong back alive as promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: How to Catch a Millionaire | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Catholic Hour (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). A question-and-answer session in which Catholic Writer John Cogley of the Fund for the Republic and Jesuit Professor (English) Walter J. Ong of St. Louis University examine the tensions between Catholics and non-Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Grateful Vietnamese farmers refer to fatherly, pipe-smoking John Barwick as Ong Cu Da (roughly, "Team Chief"), have showered the Americans with honors. From mountain villagers, for whom they demonstrated well-digging techniques, the teachers received-and all proudly wear-copper bracelets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANS ABROAD: Three Kings of Orient | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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