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Swart little Cubans who live between Cape Guancs and Cape Hicacos assembled on the shore of Matanzas Bay (60 mi. east of Havana) last week to behold a marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Frustration at Matanzas | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...news indeed to small Jimmy Costello, son of Newark's city engineer, when the Daily News (echoed by the American) reported that Col. Lindbergh had looked at him and said: "I wish I had a kid like that." To observers of the tabloid press it was instructive to behold that, on the strength of this apocryphal remark, the yearning Daily News editor had inserted a picture of Col. Lindbergh's wife (unmentioned in the story) and headlined: LINDY WANTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tabloid | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Well are you through? Yes? Then permit me to show you what bunglers you are. You know I have nothing on my person for you have searched me thoroughly. Behold!" He shook his right sleeve. Out dropped six bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Inauguration Without Assassination | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Bernarr Macfadden, publisher, editor, physical culturist extraordinary, is to many in the U. S. a hissing and a byword; to many more he is a hero-prophet. Behold three books, issued by the same publisher on the same day, dedicated to him and his works. These books tell a good deal about Publisher-Editor-Physical Culturist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Physcultopathist | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...thank you gentlemen," said loyal Almada, "but I cannot accept. Behold in me now a true convert to Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: No Fumar, No Beber | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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