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Frank Goodman also entered the quarter finals by narrowly defeating Steve Sonnabend 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Others in the quarter finals are Mike Levinson, Donald Stout, Dick Hatton, Chase Peterson, Gunther Ruff, and the winner of the Xenakis-Galphin match, yet to be determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mixed Doubles Carded as Singles Contests Reach Quarter Finalists | 8/9/1951 | See Source »

Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: The Fight for the Cemetery | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...display, situated near the library's first level exit, illustrates how photographs become printing plates in ten minutes when they are ruff through the CRIMSON'S $10,000 electric engraving machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Shows News Pictures in Lamont | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...Amsterdam's great white-plastered Wester Kerk the light is religious but not dim. Through its many plain-glass windows floods a clear, Vermeer-like light. Last week, at the closing service of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, this revealing light showed every detail: ruff-collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Pentecost | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1948 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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