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Dr. Cyclops (Paramount) recounts, with a slight flavor of sadism, what goes on when a shave-pate, myopic, six-foot-two scientist (Albert Dekker) acquires an up-to-date laboratory in the Amazon jungles and a mania for reducing human beings (by radium treatment) to a height of some 13...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

In 1922, Rogers went to investigate the disappearance of two planters near Mer Rouge, La. Working like a detective, he soon suspected that the men had been liquidated by the Ku Klux Klan. He bearded the local Exalted Cyclops, got from him the admission that this theory was right. Reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporter Rogers | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Iraq. "Cyclops" means "Round-Eye." The Cyclops of Greek myth was a giant with a single monstrous eye centred in his forehead, who sank ships by throwing boulders at them. Heading another Oriental Institute expedition to Tell Osmar, Dr. Henri Frankfort found evidence that Cyclops was not a Greek invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

"Yes, in distant centuries or millenaries man will be a Cyclops, a Polyphemus, a being with one eye only. That eye, however, will not be situated in the centre of the forehead. It will stand instead in the centre of the face. The forehead will be much higher and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Face of the Future | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

With exception of the war with Tripoli, the U. S. Coast Guard has played a distinguished part in every national struggle since its inception in 1790 as the revenue cutter service. The sinking of its cutter Tampa with 115 souls aboard stands, with the exception of the Navy's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Coast Guard's Hamlet | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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