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...Chicago, Richard Bogash, whose plump, middle-aged mate, Josephine ("Ma") Bogash, is a roller-skating champion brought a $200,000 suit against the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association and Promoter-Manager Leo Seltzer. Grounds: "In the course of the races there are numerous falls in which the limbs of the plaintiff's wife and other parts of her body are exposed to the gaze of a crowd of spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...five miles off the tiny Isles of Shoals, the Squalus, driving ahead on her Diesel engines, prepared to dive. Machinist's Mate Alfred G. Prien was at the controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...bulkhead door between control and after-battery rooms stood Electrician's Mate Lloyd Maness, whom his shipmates called "a swell little guy." As the Squalus sank Maness tugged at the heavy door, which, because of the ship's angle, had to be swung uphill. His job was to shut that door. He had it almost closed when voices from the rapidly filling battery room screamed: "Keep it open! Keep it open!" Maness let the door fall back, counted five men who struggled through. Then as the water rushed toward the door, he swung it shut, clamped down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Senior Joe Delaney, who doubles in the fall as a football tackle, will be the Holy Cross pitching starter. His battery mate will be veteran Dave Barry. Delaney and Mike Clarnick, who got credit for the victory over the Crimson in the first game, have accounted for the eight triumphs the team has scored this spring. They have been defeated four times...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen Will Face Crusaders Tomorrow On Soldiers Field | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...Washington Rep. Dewey Short (Missouri, R.), squawked that the Federal Theatre Project produced plays with "suggestive or salacious" titles, cited as samples of "vulgar and villainous activities which the people of the U. S. must be taxed for" : The Bishop Misbehaves, Companion-mate Maggie, Just a Love Nest, The King and the Chorus Girl, Lend Me Your Husband, Old Captain Romeo's Four Wives, Up in Mabel's Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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