Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agents for Candidate Bob Kerr staked out the Hilton's Normandie Lounge as a site for a genuine log cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...
...writing to withdraw his troops from the Spanish army, and to observe in future a strict neutrality. The Neapolitan court, wholly unprepared for the defense of the city, endeavored to elude the demand by prolonging the negotiation. But the gallant Englishman...laid his watch upon the table in his cabin, and told the negotiators that their answer must be given within the space of an hour, or that the bombardment should begin. This proceeding, however railed at by the diplomatists as contrary to all form and etiquette, produced a result such as they had seldom attained by protocols. Within...
...cabins, dresser drawers lock in place and do not rattle; bathroom light fixtures are angled above the mirror to reflect directly in the shaver's face; shower valves are thermostatically controlled to prevent the water from getting too hot. From every cabin, travelers can phone to anywhere in the world...
Luxury v. Defense. Because the United States was built as a troop carrier in war as much as a tourist carrier in peace, the Navy had final say on what went into the ship. Whenever the choice lay between luxury and defense, defense won. In the cabin-class lounge, for example, Designer Gibbs wanted windows. The Navy said no; they might weaken the ship...
...long as 36 hours before the ship docks, even in calm weather, Manning takes his only sleep in catnaps; he hardly stays in his cabin long enough to shave. Nor does the commodore completely relax in port. He has never been to Paris because he can't leave his ship that long. This fanatic devotion to duty has taken its toll in Manning's personal life. Twelve years ago he married Florence Isabella Trowbridge Heaton, whom he met on a crossing. They were divorced two years later, shortly after their daughter was born. Explains Manning: "I couldn...