Word: diversions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because helium is light and therefore requires little effort to inhale, doctors have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction of the windpipe makes breathing difficult. It is also of value to deep-sea divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max...
Tumbling, too, will make a dramatic if un-Harvard appearance. Two divers from the swimming team have been drafted for this department: Rusty Greenhood and Lopy Forbush. Other members of the cheer sextet include Bert Litman and George Lowman.
Imperceptibly interest was already shifting from the tables of the diplomats at Nyon to blue Mediterranean waters at a spot near Cartagena. There Leftist Spanish divers claimed to have established contact with a "pirate" submarine paralyzed on the sea bottom by depth charges.
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."
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...