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...world's best springboard diver is a carrot-topped, 21-year-old University of Texas senior named David ("Skippy") Browning. Skippy has won four Amateur Athletic Union National Indoor diving titles and four National Collegiate Indoor titles, and in Helsinki this summer he led the U.S. to a 1-2-3 sweep of Olympic springboard diving (TIME...
Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure and Ruth Roman, too. Neither Errol's deeds of derring-do nor some vigorous direction can salvage the farfetched scenario...
Four times since then, salvage experts have tried to bring up the Télémaque. In 1939 a diver, wallowing through the mud at the Seine's bottom, reached blindly into a barrel in the sunken hulk and came up with a fistful of gold louis. His employers decided to bring up the brig whole. They slung cables under the wreck and hauled away, but when the slimy mess at last came to the surface, it consisted of only the forward part of the brig. The after part, presumably containing the treasure, still lurked on the bottom...
...dramatic Gigolo and Gigolette, in which a high-diver (Glynis Johns) plans to commit suicide because she thinks her husband no longer loves her. Reassured of his affection, she safely makes the 80-ft. leap into a five-foot tank of flaming water while morbid Riviera spectators look...
...Harvard swimmers who will compete tomorrow are sprinters Dave Hedberg, Ron Huebsch, John Millard, John McNamara, and Phil Pratt, plus diver Pete Dillingham and breaststroker Ken Emerson. Hedberg has turned in the fourth best time this year of the 50-yard freestyle entries and Dillingham won the Eastern low-board title two weeks...