Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pattern of Flight. In 2½ hours it was all over. Their captain killed, the surviving Laotian troops broke for the safety of the jungle. Three days later, 46 of the original 195 defenders of Xieng Kho straggled into the provincial capital of Samneua, 25 miles distant as the crow flies...
Though neither the captain nor Cunard would elaborate on the charges, word leaked out that the sacking-the first in Cunard's 119-year history-was Cunard's reaction to reports that Captain Armstrong, 55, had shown too much attention to women passengers at the captain's table. That raised the fascinating question of what the captain could possibly have done in a public dining hall to bring down his 3O-year career with Cunard...
...Sensing an intimate glimpse into luxury-liner indiscretion, the British press tried to give an answer, leaped wildly on the story. Where facts failed, imagination soared. Headlined the Daily Express: WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE. PASSENGERS SAW THE LADY'S DRESS GO ZZZ ... ZIP! The woman whose fastener broke on a recent transatlantic run-and whose dress nearly slipped off-was attractive Mrs. Susan Silverstone, thirtyish, of Manhattan, who was promptly dubbed "Black-Eyed Susan." Passengers confirmed the incident, but it was not until farther down in the story that readers discovered where Captain Armstrong...
Searching for passengers on the June 10 New York-to-Liverpool voyage, the Daily Express placed three transatlantic calls to Mrs. Mona Kucker, a Norwalk, Conn, dog breeder who had sat at the captain's table. Mrs. Kucker gave the first real rundown on the charges. "I have a letter from Captain Armstrong," said she, "saying that he has been accused of chasing young girls around the ship and sitting in the main lounge with Mrs. Silverstone on his knee, zipping and unzipping her dress." Added Mrs. Kucker: "Nothing like that even loosely transpired...
After a quarter century as the highflying boss of Eastern Air Lines, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker this week turned over the controls to a new pilot. In as president and chief executive officer of Eastern, the third-ranking U.S. domestic air carrier (4.4 billion revenue passenger miles in 1958), went Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 51. Under Secretary of the Air Force from May 1957 until he resigned in July. In the shuffle, Rickenbacker, 68, kept the board chairmanship, will also head a new seven-man policymaking committee. Ailing (from a back injury) President Thomas F. Armstrong, 56, will become executive vice president...