Word: icebergs
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...Lorelei's chaperone, who wants her to go off the gold standard, Jane Russell does a frenetic, blond-wigged imitation of Marilyn and, surrounded by a beefcake chorus of athletes, sings Anyone Here for Love? in fine deadpan style. Sample dialogue: First Athlete: "If the ship hits an iceberg and sinks, which girl would you save from drowning?" Second Athlete with a smirk: "Those girls couldn't drown...
...instrument will soon be tested on another project: detecting icebergs under the fogs of the North Atlantic. This job is now done chiefly by Coast Guard airplanes equipped with radar. Unfortunately, the iceberg danger area is often thickly populated with fishing boats, and the radar's eye has a hard time telling bergs from boats...
...William S. Richardson of the Oceanographic Institution will fly the new instrument over the iceberg infested Grand Banks in a Navy amphibian. When the radar looks down through the fog and picks up a blip that might be either ice or a boat, he will take its temperature. If it is too cold for a boat, he will report it to the Coast Guard...
Most impressive scene: the climactic sequence as the ship strikes a submerged iceberg, and approximately two hours later sinks ponderously into a calm, moonlit, icy sea, while those left on the doomed vessel sing Nearer My God to Thee...
Widener never had to make the decision. On the way back from Europe the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Harry and his father were drowned. His mother, Eleanor Elkins Widener survived and a year later at Commencement used a silver trowel to lay the cornerstone for the Widener Library. Two years later at the 1915 Commencement, the Library, and in it the Memorial Rooms, opened...