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...years ago an automobile finance man named Guy Bett from Spearfish, S. D. saw Meier's players in Sioux Falls, S. D. He got to know Meier, persuaded him to settle in Spearfish. It was a small, attractive place, high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Black Hills Passion Play | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause for a solemn moment after the final curtain. Then it was loud and long, while many people swarmed backstage to stare at Meier. This solid urban success of the Black Hills Players made it appear that in Spearfish, S. D., the U. S. may have acquired its own Oberammergau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Black Hills Passion Play | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...into Oslo Fjord. For an added fillip they said their mines were of a new type against which there was no known defense. Used in these operations undoubtedly were plenty of France's big submarines which can lay 150 mines per trip. Somewhere along the line the British Spearfish took a crack at the Admiral Scheer, one of Germany's two remaining pocket-battleships, and believed her speared by two torpedoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prowess in Action | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

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