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That year of 1927 was the low point of his life, the dark night of the soul in which his real work began, when he stood on the shore of Lake Michigan and tried to decide whether or not to kill himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Dymaxion American | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...arrived on that shore with the best New England credentials. His great-great-great-great-grandfather came from the Isle of Wight only ten years after the Mayflower's famous landing at Plymouth Rock and fathered a male line of descendants of which every one was a clergyman or a lawyer except Bucky's father, who became a merchant importer. But his most

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Dymaxion American | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Makaha is where the waves build up to 20 and 30 ft., and race diagonally into shore at 35 m.p.h. It is the supreme test-"the place," says one surfer, "where reputations are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing: Shooting the Tube | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...half a mile clear in to the beach, catching each looming 25-footer off Makaha's northwestern tip, standing up for 300 yds., dropping prone as it dissolved to foam crossing a reef, then rising again as the wave formed again for the final 400-yd. sweep to shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing: Shooting the Tube | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: There's Nothing to Be Sorry For | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

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