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Once upon a time, traveling in the U.S. meant trains, and trains meant living it up. In 1911, for instance, the Santa Fe's De Luxe between Chicago and Los Angeles provided passengers with tubs and showers, a library, stock quotations and news reports, and the services of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Luxury Abroad | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Low Record. This unlikely craft was not built until after World War II. The first model was ready in 1948, when Pro fessor Piccard was 64. In it, he and his son Jacques descended 6,889 ft-under the Mediterranean, more than doubling the depth record (3,028 ft.) of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Wonderful Professor | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Except for the fact that it boasts one saloon for every 34 residents. Virginia City, Nev., a town of 515 atop the exhausted Comstock Lode, always seemed a wildly improbable place for so determined a dandy as Lucius Beebe. But settle there Beebe did, when he bought a long-defunct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eastward Ho | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

Tell will let Managing Editor Robert L. Richards, 50, go on running the Enterprise as he has run it for the last two years. "The paper," wrote Richards last week in an article set in the newspaper's archaic, Gay Nineties type, "will continue to violate every accepted rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eastward Ho | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

When the firemen round up The Phantom on Pony-Penning Day, there is a dividend-a beautiful white foal named Misty. Paul and Maureen rush to buy the pair with the $102.40 that they have saved up. But they are too late; The Phantom and Misty have been sold. Sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If Wishes Were Ponies | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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