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Ever since word flashed across the Atlantic that Captain Kurt Carlsen was safe, Manhattan had been waiting impatiently for him. Reporters dug into the history of the skipper of the Flying Enterprise, interviewed his family and crew. People read that he had learned his deep-water trade by crossing the Atlantic ten times in sailing ships, that he had made up his mind to be a sailor at the age of eleven, and stubbornly insisted on taking his old rowboat into the most dangerous waters around his home at Hamlet-haunted Elsinore, Denmark. By the time Carlsen arrived last week...
...people cheered the skipper as he paraded up Broadway. "I just wanted to kiss him," a young girl hollered indignantly after chasing the skipper's car for eight blocks. From every window, ticker tape and confetti poured down, 75 tons of it. At a luncheon in his honor, Carlsen turned down a gold watch sent him by a wellwisher. Said he: "Please accept a simple seaman's simple thanks...
...Flying Enterprise went down, but the ship of state must go on forever," proclaims a sign in the Harvard Union supporting Capt. H. K. Carlsen for the presidency. It is one of many induced by the printed announcement which appeared in the Union Saturday morning announcing the formation of a Capt. Carlsen Club...
...anti-Carlsen group also made its debut, immediately followed by a "semi-Carlsen" club. Yesterday, freshmen could even sign membership lists for a "Back to the Pole with Peary" movement and sign petitions requesting that Scollay Square be renamed Flying Enterprise Square...
Keith to Turmoil, 3:15: "She is still afloat. Captain Carlsen and Mr. Dancy are standing on the starboard side of the deckhouse...