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...Secretary of Commerce." The note of "historical realism" seemed so obvious that TIME supposed it intentional.-ED. Old Joe on Annette Sirs: Your word picture of Bermuda-great! One mistake though-Annette Kellerman didn't give any exhibition in Prospero's Cave, at least no swimming or diving exhibition. The place is called "Devil's Hole" by both tourists and natives. A hellish name, if you ask me. Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi. "Old Joe," the keeper, secretly told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Dive, A Royal Air Force flying boat carrying twelve men swooped in for a landing at Plymouth Sound last week. Mis judging his altitude, the pilot crashed the surface steeply at 70 m.p.h. Nine were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...situation does not turn out like a cinema. For one horror-filled night the girl escapes her fate. Next day the boy comes to. ignominiously deserts her. Then the gang's gunman shoots one of his pals to get her, gets her, takes her away with him to a dive in Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Dive--Won by J. P. Duane '32; second, Sidney Bluhm '32; third, Hollis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman and Minor Sports Active in Weekend Clashes as Post Mid-year Season Gets Underway | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...flown fast enough to produce tail-flutter. But at slow speeds, they discovered, the plane's low wing could set up wicked eddying currents which wrenched the tail up and down, destroying all control. This they called "buffeting," and concluded it had sent the Junkers into its fatal dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Buffeting v. Flutter | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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