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Rolaud F. Perkius '52 and Kenneth J. Rockford '54 were magnificent as a money-lender and old man respectively. This play goes on the boards at 3 p.m. today and again at 8.30 p.m. It is well worth seeing...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenhelmer jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...Taft-nominations closed by voters November 7, 1950. WALTER H. WILLIAMS Rockford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Turns. For the drivers, the thrills and spills are chiefly just bitter-hard work, with little reward except for a handful of the most highly skilled. In Chicago's Hurricane Auto Racing Association, a stable of professional drivers, the regulars pour it on five nights a week (Rockford, Milwaukee, Waukegan, Chicago), for a guarantee of $35 a night regardless of where they finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motor Madness | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...middle, does not worry herself too much about what the well-dressed woman should wear, expresses her urge for personal ornamentation by wearing spangle-studded glasses and chunks of costume jewelry. She got her elementary lessons in journalism as an 18-year-old reporter on her mother's Rockford (Ill.) morning Star, covering everything from farm news to a "dance-athon," and writing two columns. In 1941, Bazy married Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., now 30, a socialite defense-plant worker, University of Chicago graduate and ex-ranch hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Castle for the Princess | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Whitman, sang bass, played varsity tennis, majored in chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beirut's Fourth | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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