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Lanker Otto Kahn, traveled to California as a rich man's companion, died by jumping from the deck of a steamer that was returning him from Mexico...
...Water. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. announced that its 92-ton, four-motored Constitution, world's second biggest land-based transport plane, would be delivered to the Navy in four months. On the upper deck of the double-decked fuselage (see cut), the plane will carry 92 passengers. On the lower deck, connected by a circular staircase, it can carry another 76 passengers. Though the Constitution was built expressly for the Navy (which has another one on order), Lockheed has high hopes for it as a commercial plane. At nearly the same cruising speed (300 m.p.h.) as the Constellation...
...surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep," he relates. "There was a frightful crash and I ran on deck, thinking of a robot bomb. But a landing craft, filled with newspaper reporters and, I think, steered by one of them, had smashed into us. They dented...
King's Fishing. One May afternoon in 1946 Victor Emmanuel, wearing white gloves, went fishing for sgómbro, a kind of mackerel, in the bay of Naples. For hours he sat erect on a camp chair, his short, spindly legs clear of the royal yacht's deck. Only one sgómbro bit. The political fishing was just as bad. The king's few remaining friends told him that the Italian people would vote against the monarchy...
Hopes. The newsmen were waiting on the liner's aft veranda deck, shivering slightly in the 39° cold, when Panyushkin, hatless and inconspicuous in a long blue overcoat, hove into sight in tow of a Cunard pressagent. When he spotted the group, he fled to a lower deck. The reporters followed, and cornered...