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...story and elaborating the discoveries of Beebe's voyage to the Sargasso Sea,, the Humboldt current, Volcanic Galapagos and the prehistoric gorge of the Hudson (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925 et seq.) ; replete with descriptions and exquisite hand-painted color plates of extraordinary sea creatures, from pygmy sharks to titan devilfish; written in Explorer Beebe's best scientifico-romantic vein -is THE ARCTURUS ADVENTURE-William Beebe-Putnam...
Deadlock. It soon became apparent that Premier Baldwin faced a titan's task in attempting to mediate between the Coal Miners' Federation and the Coal Owners' Mining Association, both of which seemed disposed to bargain for terms more favorable to themselves than those embodied by the Baldwin Government in its post-"general strike" proposal* for settling the coal strike...
...When you get out of college you make the same mistake. The business man of America works like a Titan all week and then, exhausted, he goes to the golf links to rest. There he plays...
...great piazza before the Cathedral of Milan, black-shirted Fascists swarmed like a Titan ant horde, rejoicing militantly at the third anniversary of Fascismo's "bloodless" triumph. Round the motor car of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, Fascists crowded in a tight packed mass-the quintessence of joyous adoration. Their leader's face, pale from recent ill health, lighted with an inextinguishable flame. Rising he cried: "Fascism has now broken down all dikes and overcome all obstacles . . . crushed its internal enemies. [Of] the currents abroad which are not resigned to our frontiers ... I must say that if tomorrow these...
Honus ("Hans") Wagner, onetime Pittsburgh baseball Titan, has entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear- ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER. There was a picture of Honus in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each spring, Wagner once more dons his uniform, plays "sandlot" ball. If the sheriffalty does not prevent, he is expected to play this year with the "Elks" of the Allegheny County (Pa.) League...