Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This colloquy took place one day last week over a telephone cable connecting blonde, comely Gloria Hollister on the deck of a barge with the sturdy little steel ball that was taking William Beebe and Otis Barton to a greater depth in the sea than man had ever reached before...
...Powerful from St. George, Bermuda, to a point eight miles off lovely Nonsuch Island. Bracketed on the inside wall of the bathysphere were oxygen tanks. Trays of soda lime (to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide) and calcium chloride (to absorb moisture) were stowed in. Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton wedged themselves in, smiling and waving. They were confident their bathysphere would stand up under the great pressure a half-mile down (1,300 lb. per sq. in.) because a few days before it had been lowered empty to 3,000 ft. and came up intact...
...Beebe had intended to try for a half-mile dive, but at 2,510 ft. he had a hunch, he said later, that he had better not go down any farther. While he was yammering excitedly into the mouthpiece, Mr. Barton exposed 25 ft. of cinema film and took five stills on supersensitive plates. Soon the dripping ball was on the barge deck again and the divers popped out. Said Dr. Beebe: "I have never seen so much stuff in my life, and new stuff, too. It is the silliest thing in the world to attempt to describe...
...Barton-Beebe bathysphere is a single steel casting 1½-in. thick and 4 ft. 9 in. in diameter. It weighs 5,000 lb. There are three 8-in. windows of fused quartz. The sphere was designed and built by Otis Barton, Harvardman (1922 ), big game hunter, onetime Paris art student. He presented it to the New York Zoological Society. That body and the National Geographic Society sponsored the present expedition...
...wails louder about Nazi anti-Semitism than Samuel Untermyer. In Philadelphia last month that orchidaceous Manhattan lawyer told an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House and the nation-at-large by radio that pious Adman Bruce Barton (The Man Nobody Knows) was "the recognized paid agent of the German Propaganda Bureau." Mr. Barton sent his attorney around to see Mr. Untermyer and last week quick-spoken Mr. Untermyer was down on his knees with a full apology, a complete retraction. "Remarks of that kind," he wrote Mr. Barton, "travel so fast that when they are incorrect it is almost impossible...