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...Manhattan, Lieut.-Colonel Ralph A. Kluge was lunching with a friend when he heard that the city's supposedly fireproof Pier No. 54, main wharf of the Cunard Line, was burning down. Said he: "You know, I designed the steel construction for that pier years ago. I'd like to see how the old job is standing up. Let's go over...
Among the instruments, nuts and nudes on view last week were portraits of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Painters Andre Derain, Joseph Stella. Pablo Picasso, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, Negrophile Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...
...past 18 months transatlantic-steamship companies have been ploughing through heavy financial seas with little ballast aboard. Bookings have fallen off sharply despite all manner of inducements to tourists. Last summer first-class rates were cut 10% to 30%. Last month Cunard Steamship Co. resorted to instalment-plan ticket sales. Ostensibly to consider further rate reductions, the North Atlantic Passenger Conference met last week in Brussels. Before it had time to consider anything, U. S. Lines (which is not a member of the Conference) tossed a bomb into its midst...
...Liners (Leviathan, President Harding, President Roosevelt), plus a further reduction on de luxe accommodations, plus elimination of the increased rates for summer travel. Competing lines immediately met the issue. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line), Canadian Pacific, White Star. Red Star, Atlantic Transport and Cunard (which has been agitating for reductions since last year's report showed a ?533,000 net loss) cut prices in all classes an average of 20%. The newly consolidated...
Englishmen are shouting "Buy British!" instead of "Carry on!" but urbane Sir Ashley Sparks, U. S. chief of the Cunard Line, landed in Manhattan last week with an air of durate...