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Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

The most successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

All of his life, Hope Root loved the sea. A vigorous, barrel-chested (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) Miami lawyer, Root spent his spare time in or on the water, fishing, boating and swimming. Three years ago he discovered the new sport of skin diving with an Aqua-Lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenge | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

"It's Bad Down There." Root's plans for an assault on the record last week were carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Challenge | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Joe Farrier, the visitors' third ace, won the one-meter low board diving event with 84.08 points to 82.22 for the Crimson's Pete Smails.

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Swimmers Beat Springfield; Hawkins Sets Two Records | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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