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...mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers. Two men in a rowboat fished the light lines out, rowed them to the Cunard pier. Soon rhythmically functioning stevedore crews had the ship's main hawsers fast. Over board...
...strike cannot break up the day-to-day movement of life was illustrated Tuesday when, in a manner grandly reminiscent of clipper ships days, the Queen Mary slipped into port helped only by a rowboat, several stevedores, and St. Christopher. Owing to the New York tugboat strike, the Cunard liner did not have its customary twelve pushers as it arrived off the Fiftieth Street pier in early morning sunlight. On its bridge stood Commodore Robert B. Irving who observed the state of the weather and declared it deal, then took out his gold medal of the patron saint of travelers...
After the Queen Mary briefly stuck crosswise in the river on which she was built, Britain's funnypaper, Punch, pictured a barge in similar predicament whose crestfallen helmsman called to the captain, "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary." With Cunard White Star officials still asserting that the Queen Mary was not deliberately racing on her recent record crossing (TIME, Aug. 22), Punch last week showed two tugboats running furiously neck & neck. "Racin'? Certainly not," says one of the tugboat captains, hoisting his nose high...
After S. S. Mauretania was scrapped, Cunard White Star Ltd., to keep its right to the name, dubbed a Southampton paddle steamer Mauretania. Some time during the next few years the Methodist Episcopal Church, South will be scrapped, a majority of its membership having voted to join a new, nationwide Methodist Church (TIME, May 9). Last week, Attorney G. Seals Aiken of Atlanta, a lay leader in the fight against unification, went into court to salvage his church's name. He obtained a charter for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Inc., invited Southern Methodist individuals and congregations to join...
...most potent advertisements of national craftsmanship are the modern World's Fair and the modern superliner. Three years ago the French Line launched the vastly chic Normandie as one of France's supreme artistic achievements and somewhat incidentally as a ship. Cunard White Star's vastly smart Queen Mary is supposed to embody the artistic as well as the ship-building genius of Great Britain. Sailing last week on the first return voyage of Holland-America Line's brand new Nieuw Amsterdam (TIME, May 23), the U. S. travelers for whom she was frankly designed found...