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Information, Please. Along Manhattan's shipping row on lower Broadway, shipping men were badgered for information about transatlantic passenger sailings and reservations. Britain's Cunard White Star, Ltd. cheerfully registered the names and addresses of prospective travelers, hoped to offer limited accommodations soon. Three deluxe, air-conditioned, 18,000 ton liners are under construction for the United States Lines, may be ready for service by Labor...
...given them were the dimensions of the ad, some of the first ads appeared chock-full of Container Corp. boxes. Paepcke added a second rule: no more boxes. Thus, many of the paintings in the show are as unrelated to Container Corp. as a Waugh seascape is to the Cunard Line...
...conducted the New York Philharmonic with such lively enthusiasm that at one concert he broke his braces and had to walk off the stage holding his trousers up with his hands. Within the year he was back in London. With the help of his close friend, U.S.-born Lady Cunard, he founded England's greatest contemporary orchestra, the London Philharmonic, whose principal backer he remains today...
After the war, Pan Am will have another kind of battle on its hands. Many of its new routes tangle with British Overseas Airways' jealously guarded Empire routes. Cunard has announced that it may be forced to start air service after the war; so will many another U.S. and foreign company. But pioneering Pan Am is getting a long head start...
Pola Negri, 41, oldtime siren of the silents, and Negrophile Nancy Cunard, the British shipping family's 45-year-old problem child, tangled with immigration officials in New York harbor. They finally let Pola in despite the fact her papers were out of order. She had come from the Riviera. Nancy, who had come from Havana with no visa at all, settled on Ellis Island to await the next boat to England...