Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngest casualty, four-year-old Norma di Sandro, whose skull was fractured, possibly when she was dropped from Andrea Doria into a lifeboat. (She died next day at Boston's U.S. Public Service Hospital.) By 5 a.m. only Captain Calamai and a score of his crew were still aboard Andrea Doria, still trying to level her with auxiliary pumps. At 7 a.m. they admitted defeat, were taken off. Three hours later, while silent seafarers watched transfixed, Andrea Doria poised a polished fantail and motionless screws in the air, then slid down to the ocean's dark bottom. Behind...
After the Soviet ship Pobeda sailed from Italy with some 400 homeward-bound U.S.S.R. tourists aboard, the Soviet embassy in Rome sprang a surprise: two of the sightseers, bustling incognita about the city's antiquities, had been a daughter of Nildta Khrushchev, Rada, and a daughter-in-law of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, Ina-a kind of junior ladies' division of the famous B. & K. traveling troupe. Neither lady's husband made the trip; Rada had prosaically explained: "My husband is just another Russian who works in Moscow. He could not get a vacation...
...through the night and on into the morning the Times waited for what it hoped would be an eyewitness report from Times Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came. Sleeping in his cabin, Timesman Cianfarra, a veteran of more than 25 years, was killed instantly by the Stockholm's ice-crusher bow, along with his daughter...
...chaperoned by Greece's Queen Frederika. Niarchos obligingly provided another steamer last summer so that Elsa Maxwell could take an all-star supporting cast (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll) on a Mediterranean junket while Niarchos cruised the other end of the sea aboard the Creole; he was "too busy" to go along...
...these and other reasons, Niarchos is distrusted by oldtime shipowners, sneered at as an "uptown boy," i.e., a landlubber who doesn't know his fantail from a fo'c'sle. Though he seldom sets foot aboard a tanker, Niarchos retorts angrily that he is far more concerned with his fleet than his fortune...