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...with its four-page spread of eight pictures on "A Day in the Life of a Co-Ed." Heloise was shown climbing out of her double-decker bed in the morning, showering behind a transparent curtain, snaking into a dress, taking notes in class, posed outside with a bow & arrow in a bathing suit, posed inside again "practicing a few dance steps," dancing at a Des Moines hotspot with "Bus" Bergmann, and, also with Friend Bergmann, in the "lingering reality of a good-night kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Adventures of Heloise | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Aviation Show | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...make its own glass. General Motors was stocked with a month's supply. But by last week's end the parts pinch had laid off 10,000 to 20,000 workers in Ford's River Rouge factory, crippled production in Ford's and Fierce-Arrow's Buffalo plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention. On a Babylonian site at least a millennium older than Homer, the diggers discovered a relief carving showing a god with bow & arrow stabbing a Cyclops in the belly with a broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound behind him and his assailant is stepping on his toe, the monster nonchalantly faces what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...scientists collected material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithsonian's Year | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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