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...clear summer afternoon of June 27, the American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work...
...taken, the confetti-speckled, 9,644-ton liner Excalibur, carrying 114 vacationers and 130 crewmen, steamed down New York Harbor, bound for a leisurely cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia got its bow bashed in, and fire broke...
...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...
...radio stations (and eventually The Voice of America and leading European stations). Program No. 1 will star an orchestra already familiar to U.S. record fans: the famed Vienna Philharmonic. The others will carry U.S. listeners on a 1,400-mile journey across less familiar territory-from the Danish Radio Symphony to the State Symphony of Greece...
...Solo Dancer Ralov in particular could thank him for one of his successes. When Ralov first danced the role of Gennaro in Auguste Bournonville's Napoli, Frederik, then Crown Prince, came backstage and asked him if he would like some pointers. Frederik had seen Hans Beck, a famed Danish dancer, the role years before, and had spent hours in a practice room with Ralov, coaching him on what he had seen...