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Working all summer with big depth bombs and small depth bombs, grim Italian divers have blown and bubbled their way slowly nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930 et seq.). Last week with the treasure almost grasped, the Italian diver ship Artiglio II ran out of wine & spaghetti, promptly put back to the harbor of Brest. There, while she took on cases of spaghetti and 600 litres of the scorching red wine that Italian seamen like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wealth of the Egypt | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Southern California would like to believe comes from the fact that she has always lived there. She used to play baseball with the Chicago Cubs when they trained at Catalina Island, was tumbling in a Los Angeles pool when a swimming coach saw that she might make a good diver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swimmers | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Graf was by way of preparation for her projected Arctic flight. It satisfied the officers that, in good weather, the ship can put off and take aboard personnel for hunting or exploration. But the proposed rendezvous with Sir Hubert Wilkins' submarine Nautilus was abandoned because of the diver's misfortunes in crossing the Atlantic (TiME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Season Opened | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated to be a concert pianist. Instead she became a proficient harpist. At 18 she married a theatrical scene designer, is now divorced. She is domestic, practical, thrifty; makes her own clothes, cooks well. She is a competent horsewoman, swimmer, diver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 22, 1931 | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

CITY LIGHTS-Charlie Chaplin proves that becoming a genius has not spoiled his lability to eat spaghetti, clean streets, have wet pants, etc. etc. TABU-Fred Murnau's ideas about photographic story telling make this the best of the South Sea Island pictures-about a pearl diver and his girl. THE FRONT PAGE-Continuous crisis in a criminal courts press room, brilliantly written and acted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: COMING | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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