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PREDICTING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IS A NOTORIOUSLY inexact science, and no one knows that better than people along the "ring of fire" that extends through Southeast Asia. Without warning last week the Philippines' Mayon volcano blew up, killing at least 68 and driving thousands from their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will It Blow? | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

Over southern Luzon stands a plume of ashy smoke (see cut). Mt. Mayon in the Philippines has again blown its graceful top. Most other recent seismic unrest (earthquakes and volcanoes) has also hit the shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Continents on the Loose | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Engaged. Sally Rand, 23, Century of Progress fan dancer; and Charles Mayon, 29, radio dealer, announcer of her act. Miss Rand plans to offer her fans to the Smithsonian Institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Cocoanut Grove, 17 Piedmont St. -Cabaret 7.30 and 11.30-Master of ceremonies, Mickey Alpert-Entertainers, Charles Sabin, Madeline Northway and Ruth Mayon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING AND DANCING | 2/12/1930 | See Source »

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