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...Hugo Zucchini. In spite of doctors' objections Sigñor Zacchini climbs into the mouth of a huge cannon mounted on a motor truck, smears himself with soot, is propelled by compressed air 150 ft into a net as a big firecracker goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa Sig, and stocky James O. Harrison Simrall Jr., quarterback, captain of the 1930 football team, a Phi Delt, and two editors of the Michigan Daily were booked along with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Drinking | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

William S. Thompson, Western Union telegraph operator, last week announced the invention of a device that will transmit distress sig- nals (or any other messages) automatically, thus releasing the oper- ator from his duty of signaling for help even while the ship sinks. It can be used on airplanes as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Automatic SOS | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Last week, when the Kingsway came to anchor off Staten Island, N. Y., Federal men took Mr. Battice ashore to be tried for murder, with Donkeyman Badke a material witness and statutory offender. Seamen Hans Malibar, Frederick Kline, Alex Christiansen, Sig Scvhwanborg and Erik Anderson, with Thomas Murray, acting first mate and onetime bosun, were held pending formal entry of the almost obsolete charge, "mutiny on the high seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Wolf | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. The Bishop, in short, was keenly interested in Society; he knew Society; he would be able to clarify the special sig nificance of this ducal affair. Before a congregation of 1,000 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bishop delivered himself. "This action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mrs. Belmont Broods | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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