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Last Sunday the Governor traveled to Philadelphia to see a fete on the Schuylkill River in which comic divers and aqua-pianists performed. He watched and grinned, then soberly declared: "Those clowns gave me my first laugh in two weeks."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Labor Governor | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

For his water spectacle, which he named BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marine Circus | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Though many a present-day author incites to political action, few have practised what they preach. One of the few is André Malraux (Man's Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divers | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

The six found themselves in the same sponge-divers' gang. The work was punishing, the pay small, the prospects nil. But some of them still schemed how they could get away, fight their way up from this hopeless bottom they had touched. Freeth was young and smart enough to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divers | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

One of the closet races in the second meet should come when breastsrokers Dick Hough of the Tigers and Greg Jameson of the Crimson dive into the pool for their 200-yard swim. The exploits of Jameson, who one week age set a pool record at Hanover of 2:32.6...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

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