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With a volunteer crew, Bristowe entered a twin-motored ship's launch. Starting far offshore, it purred in quietly to the steel harbor net, which it passed over safely. Through the thick darkness Commander Bristowe felt his way undetected to the looming bulk of the Richelieu, and around under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Daring at Dakar | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Within its thick walls is a plaza some 600 yd. in diameter. Ceilings of its turrets are reinforced concrete ten feet thick, low to the ground like the Maginot Line. Speculation as to what manner of weapon could paralyze the defenders of such a place centred on two possibilities: 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TACTICS: Nerve Gas? | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

The King and his Prime Minister did not know that Lord Tweedsmuir was going to slip in his bath and die of brain concussion (TIME, Feb. 19), but his term was about to expire and they did well to get everything forehandedly settled. Last week. Buckingham Palace officially announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hate-Free, Fear-Free | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Died. Clarence Mott Woolley Jr., 22, captain and outstanding player of Yale's 1939 polo team; of a brain concussion after a hard spill during a Brook League match; in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

The great worry in Sonja Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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