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Abruptly taken off the sailing schedule last April, the angular old four-stacker has since been held at Southampton in hopes that Italy would buy her for a troop ship. Last week Italy did buy the Hamburg-American Resolute, showed no interest in the Olympic. Regretfully, Cunard White Star officials invited prospective buyers of her fittings, put her on the scrapping list...
Smallest boat (49 ft.) in the race-sighted last week in midocean by Captain Frisco-had a skipper of a different stamp. Stoertebeker's Ludwig Schlimbach, until he retired, used to captain Hamburg-American liners across the Atlantic. Grizzled, 59, amused at the elegance of his competitors, Captain Schlimbach arrived at Newport three days before the race, barely managed to lay in enough supplies, rearrange his rigging, borrow water lights and a code book to qualify. Joked he before the start: "Next time I come mitout a boat...
Both the Holland-America Line and the Hamburg-American Line will carry the popular music of Harvard men during this summer...
...Thursday, June 27, the Serenaders sail on the Hamburg-American S.S. Albert Ballin where they will play for the rest of the summer. They will thus form the Harvard contingent of six college bands which are to play on Hamburg-American vessels during the vacation...
...booklet is edited by William H. Collins, president of the Intercollegiate Young Alumni and member of the Student Advisory Board of the National Institute for Public Affairs. Copies may be obtained from the Educational Service Department of the Hamburg-American Line, 252 Boylston Street, Boston...