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...swank London audience assembled to hear Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, lecture on art. was amazed when he stumped down the aisle to the dais in a deep-sea diving suit. Beginning his talk through a microphone inside the helmet, Painter Dali, whose eccentric canvases created a furor in Manhattan nearly two years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), presently was overcome by heat, forced to remove his helmet. Keeping the rest of the costume on until his speech was over, he explained to newshawks: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging down deeply into the human mind...
...motive power he had short oars. A miner's lamp attached to his steel helmet, a searchlight on the boat's prow, an under water lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers...
...cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching the fish...
Ubiquitous in U. S. parks and public buildings is the conventional War memorial doughboy with trench helmet and bayonet, charging eternally in bronze or marble. Last week an arrestingly different conception for a U. S. War memorial was unveiled at St. Paul, Minn. Startled citizens and American Legionaries got their first look at a huge, brooding Indian, towering in 55 tons of cream-white Mexican onyx 36 feet above a slowly rotating pedestal in the black marble concourse of St. Paul's new City Hall. One great hand held the Pipe of Peace. The other was raised...
First ashore went the dumpy Empress Menen, her two daughters, the 12-year-old Duke of Harar and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan. Then down the gangplank, to the mournful tweetle of the boatswain's pipe, stepped little Haile Selassie in a sun helmet and a long white cloak. The Carnaro's band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find...