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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 5 a. m. all is ready. Professor Piccard speaks briefly into a radio microphone. He salutes the crowd of 15.000. in which stands famed Dr. Hugo Eckener. He embraces his wife, his four eldest children. He follows Assistant Cosyns through the round manhole into the 7-ft. sphere. Cosyns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sentimental Journey | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Four days later, all the other boats in the race had been accounted for but no one had seen the Curlew. A Bermuda tug, the Sandboy, made a 70 mile search around Bermuda, found nothing. The U. S. Consul at Bermuda asked the U. S. Coast Guard to start a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cruise of the Curlew | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

The Man From Yesterday (Paramount). Like Bachelor's Affairs, this picture has a familiar plot but it has no spontaneity. It is a compendium of old stories about the War and Enoch Arden. Clive Brook and Claudette Colbert act it as though they were in a trance and if you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1932 | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

In his phenomenally popular The Art of Thinking Abbe Dimnet showed how men could add to their stature by taking thought. Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire. Motive for that desire he finds twofold-"the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Standbys | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

The Beautiful is to be come at by reverent study of all the arts. Trained in harmonies, a man will begin to try to harmonize himself. Of his cacophonies he will no longer say. " 'Well, I am like that' or 'The Lord made me what I am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Standbys | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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