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...clad in the uniform of the British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart are several ex-RAF types, moustached and bearded, who punctuate their clipped, casual conversation with dated bits of Battle of Britain slang like "wack-o," "bang-on," "piece of cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Keeping Biafra Alive | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...Gene Sarazen. In the first match, Gene Littler plays against Scotland's Eric Brown at Gleneagles. Byron Nelson will take on Holland's Gerry de Wit at The Hague. The U.S.'s Dave Ragan will play against the Philippines' Celestino Tugot at Manila's Wack-Wack Golf Club. So it goes for all but one of the eleven matches in the series. In late February Jack Nicklaus plays Sam Snead at Pebble Beach, Calif., and it is difficult to guess what NBC considers foreign-Nicklaus, Snead, or Pebble Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pitch & Putt | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Well on the outside in the field of eleven, at post position ten, was John T. De Blois Wack's big, bad-tempered colt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Richest in History | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding of the conquerors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: End of a Puppet | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...prize to the listener who could think up a new name for him. Now NBC is offering a $500 war bond for the best title for The Show Without a Name. A would-be actor until his parents said no, Moore turned to radio and became a successful wack. Assigned by NBC to an office with H. V. Kaltenborn, he has so far manfully resisted his urge to rearrange the pins in the pundit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Coffee and Gags | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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