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Known locally as the "Wies'n" (after the Theresienwiese, the open area where the festival is held), Oktoberfest is a convivial debauch that sees the consumption of some 6 million liters of beer, 300,000 pork sausages, 600,000 roast chickens and 80 oxen. The revelry takes place in huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foam Party | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

The party's strongman is a onetime oilfield mechanic, stocky Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka (party name "Wies-law"), 41, who says: "We are carrying out a revolution. ... In the interests of democracy, order and also expediency, we must accommodate open vocal opposition. It will be much more dangerous if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Peasant & the Tommy Gun | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Virginia Van Wie started to play golf at 11, to help cure an injury to her back incurred playing football with a team of small boys. Coached by D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla., where the Van Wies spend their winters, she entered her first tournament at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Chestnut Hill | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (rhymes with "tee") took to golf when she was 11, because her doctor thought it might help the back she had hurt playing football with a team of little boys. D. E. Miner, golf professional at De Land, Fla. where the Van Wies spend their winters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies at Exmoor | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Class of 1931: C. M. Arensberg, A. R. Belliveau, W. W. Foshay, E. B. Grossman, R. G. Kennelly, A. L. Kowarsky, D. D. Lloyd, R. G. S. Maier, J. A. Marcus, Z. I. Mosesson, Arthur Sard, David Wies.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAMES OF FORTY EIGHT DETUR PRIZE WINNERS FOR 1931-32 ANNOUNCED | 4/16/1932 | See Source »

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