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Some spearmen (also known as bottom scratchers, gogglers, frogmen) satisfy themselves with homemade spears, inexpensive flippers and masks. But there is a growing tendency among expert spearfishermen (such as those shown on the following pages) to mechanize with aqualungs ($115 to $275) for underwater breathing, to use powerful spear guns charged with steel springs or compressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: SPEARFISHING | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...John Marshall. Wayne Moore, or Jim McLane to conjure with. But Ulen has managed to parlay a Hedberg, a McNamara, a Dillingham, and a flood of sophomores into a team that will probably once again go undefeated until it travels to New Haven in March to meet Kiphuth's frogmen...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...Warner) should make moviegoers long for the days when Hollywood shrank from making war films. Since 1949's Battleground broke the box-office jinx, the studios have bombarded audiences with World War II stories celebrating the infantry and airmen; the Navy's FT boats, submarines, carriers and frogmen; the fighting Coast Guard; the Marines ashore and in the air. Now comes the turn of the armor that spearheaded the U.S. drive through France in the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...weather was an equalizer, however, and Amherst deserved to win. The aptly-named Frogmen took 18 shots during the game, and had it not been for Crimson goalie Dick Craven's remarkable play the score would have been higher. Amherst captain Howie Burnett, the center forward, was outstanding both on the attack and in his own defensive zone. Because of him, his two insides, Ash Eames and Manse Hall, and fullback Juan Fernandez, the Lord Jeffs kept the ball in the Harvard zone during most of the game...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Booters Lose to Amherst, 2-0, in Slow, Muddy Game | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Frogmen. How the Navy's underwater demolition teams cleared invasion beaches in World War II; with Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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