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Seymour Hess, of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., reported to the meteorologists that Mars is a dry place indeed. There is so little water vapor in its atmosphere that if it all fell at once as rain, it would register less than a hundredth of an inch.* And the Martians (if any) are living in a rarefied atmosphere only one-twelfth as dense as the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Neighbors | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Route. In Phoenix, Ariz., Howard Lampton advertised in the Phoenix Republic's "Lost" column: "Teeth, uppers near Avalon on South Central; lowers near Riverside ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...CREIGHTON JR. Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Stocky, brown-haired Robert Proctor, the 23-year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ambush in the Plaza | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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