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Married. Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg), 56, veteran Broadway showman; and Joyce Mathews, 36, blonde onetime cinema starlet (Night Work), and Rose's longtime (five years) fiancee; he for the third time (his first: Comedienne Fanny Brice; second: Aqua-star Eleanor Holm), she for the fourth (her first: Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez; her second and third: TV Comic Milton Berle); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...edge of the Gulf Stream, 2½ miles off Hollywood Beach, Fla., Indianapolis Housewife Barbara Jacobs, 33, strapped on an Aqua-Lung, swam down to a new skindiving record for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...exhibit, from an aqua-green Thunderbird to an automatic voting machine on which visitors registered their favorite products, easily outdazzled competition from Red China, even though its display of heavy equipment included machinery made in satellite Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Off to the Fair | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Burly ex-Coast Guardsman Russell Tongay, 39. was hustled from Miami to the Florida state pen to start a ten-year manslaughter stretch. His unsavory crime: causing the death of his daughter. "Aqua-tot" Kathy Tongay, 5, who died in convulsions soon after Aquapop Tongay made her leap from a 33-ft. diving tower into a Miami Beach pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...your Feb. 28 review of the movie Underwater!, your reviewer mentions Jane Russell not being at her best "at ten fathoms with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an Aqua-Lung." It is not likely that she would be. Compressed air, not oxygen, is used with an Aqua-Lung, and oxygen breathed at depths of more than about 35 ft. becomes highly toxic to the human body, resulting in convulsions, blackout, and eventully death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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