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...Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...garden dedicated to the memory of George V, Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, genteelly prodded some ivy with her umbrella, vowed: "If I had a pair of secateurs [pruning shears], I would cut it off now. ... If I come next year and it's still there, I will clip it off." "Her Majesty," translated a lady-in-waiting, "doesn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Warfare on the House hockey front yesterday saw Dudley clip the Elephants' cars 2 to 0, Lowell shut out Winthrop 3 to 0, and Dunster snow under an outclassed Kirkland sextet 5 to 0; Leverett and Adams battled through on overtime to a 2 to 2 deadlock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Bellboys, Dunster Win In Hockey; Dams, Bunnies Tie | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In New Orleans | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...after Sportsman Williams' catch, another blue marlin, a monster, was feeling warm enough to strike at a fresh squid trolled by Sportsman Julian Carr Stanley, fishing with Captain Herman Jacobsen on the launch Mongoose. The fish ripped the line from its outrigger clip on his first rush, then took the hook solidly when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Montauk Marlin | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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