Word: champlain
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...dock near by. The masts had to be sawed off the Paris before the Normandie could be taken out to her dock. This week, while the Paris' passengers (and also Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and two sons) were on the way to the U. S. on the Champlain the Sûreté had another mystery dumped into its lap. Tied up at her dock in Toulon, the 9,847-ton S. S. Angers was destroyed by fire...
...taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...
Fortnight ago, as the French liner Lafayette lay burning in a Havre drydock. the crew of the French liner Champlain was on strike in the same port. After midnight one night last week, two fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried...
...that she loved the U. S., loved to lecture, liked photographers, reporters, liked to see her name in electric lights on Times Square. When she sailed for the U. S., after a 30-year absence, with her companion, Alice B. Toklas, she enjoyed getting a luxurious stateroom on the Champlain for less than the price of a small one, as one of the privileges of fame. "People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing...
...work on his grandfather's farm near Portsmouth. Once more drink and an unguarded tongue fouled him with the authorities. He left town in a hurry, headed for General Amherst's French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...