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...SEARCHLIGHT on SPAIN-Penguin Books Limited, Middlesex, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Threatened Rock? | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the Circumnavigators Club gave a testimonial dinner for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed Arctic & Antarctic explorer. In a setting designed to resemble Byrd's Little America camp, members wearing parkas presented him with a life-sized penguin made of ice. An Eskimo dog wandered around among the tables. Admiral Byrd showed motion pictures of his Antarctic expeditions, revealed that except for the money he made by lecturing he would be completely broke, was "pretty nearly broke" anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Third great reason for small U. S. book sales is the price of books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book Fair | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Bermuda's government aquarium a pair of Galapagos penguins, presented by Vincent Astor three years ago and lately fed wheat-germ oil, produced two eggs, which both hatched last week-first captive penguin hatch recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Aquarium, a little blackfoot penguin sprained its ankle when it stepped on a marshmallow someone had dropped onto the penguins' pool platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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