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...swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in Manhattan nearly two years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), presently was overcome by heat, forced to remove his helmet. Keeping the rest of the costume on until his speech was over, he explained to newshawks: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging down deeply into the human mind...
...Denver, made editor of Outdoor Life, potent sporting magazine which his father had founded in 1898. Editor McGuire took seriously his job of running a publication, increased circulation to 139,603, made $50,000 in good years. In line of duty he formed a Bear Protection Society, went deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with the president of the University of Minnesota and, while intoxicated in Mexico, shot the sixth largest antelope ever bagged...
Gadgets are really the most important part of a boat show. Last week they outnumbered boats by 39,900, took up one entire floor of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. Sample gadgets: streamlined searchlights, helmets for novice deep-sea divers, log cabins, bilge pumps, nautical china, gear grease, chronometers, barometers, fire extinguishers, glue. Best sellers this year as last were life-preserver cushions...
...tall, gangling, muscular man who went down encased in ''Eleanor" is a crack deep-sea diver named Roy Robert Hansen. He worked on the S-51 and S-4 jobs when those U. S. submarines went to the bottom (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925; Dec. 26, 1927). His father, a diver called "Big Charley," was killed working in the Great Lakes, and "Big Charley's" father also lost his life diving. Roy Hansen counts on a generous cut of the Hussar's riches to retire...
...Sopwith's first wife, a daughter of the 8th Baron Ruthven, died. The present Mrs. Sopwith, whom he married two years ago, is an expert deep-sea fisherwoman, last year caught a 640-lb. tuna in British waters after a 6-hour struggle. As enthusiastic about sailing as her husband, Mrs. Sopwith will be the first woman ever to help man a boat in an America's Cup race. Her job will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross...