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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Photogenic Scuttling. Roughly half of each 30-minute installment of Sea Hunt happens underwater. Skindiving Hero Mike Nelson (Bridges) has battled the odds in the form of sharks, octopuses, moray eels, manta rays, alligators, giant sea turtles, Aqua-Lunged badmen-and "rapture of the deep" (nitrogen narcosis). The whole production crew is equally at home at sea; Ziv Producer Tors, 42, is a zealous sea hunter, and Secretary Parry holds the world's depth record for women: 209 ft. down, off Catalina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Off the Deep End | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Gurgled Defiance. No diver till he took the job. Bridges has quickly become the world's best-known underwater actor, picks up tidy extra income on his merchandising tie-in with a rubber company that makes "Mike Nelson" flippers, masks, snorkels and rubber boats. His 52 sponsors across the U.S. are elated with Sea Hunt's showing, will doubtless keep Bridges going off the deep end next year. He will continue to expose marine-insurance frauds, nab below-surface smugglers of aliens, rescue other hapless souls trapped in the deep, cut short careers of skindiving robbers who prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Off the Deep End | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...being dispelled by the Soviet Union. Ziv, biggest U.S. film syndicator, last April turned over 13 installments to the U.S.S.R. in the first swap of TV films under the new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange program. At the moment. Sea Hunt is being dubbed in Russian. Soon Mike Nelson will be captivating the U.S.S.R.'s adventure lovers as he peers fearlessly through his mask, gurgles defiance, draws his knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Off the Deep End | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Jean Savant-Thomas Nelson & Sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Hero | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Although Steinle still has an uphill battle, his least expected asset for November is that it is now the Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Face in Wisconsin | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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