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...what is called an uneventful trip. The ship (long, tall, narrow, beautiful Ile de France) lurched. There were no accidents (except for 200 chairs and 12 people which toppled upon each other at a cinema), no thefts, no speed records...
Stephen Vincent Benet, U. S. poet and novelist, arrived in the second class cabin of the Ile de France, delighted with the heavy sales of his 80,000-word cycloramic epic of the Civil War, John Brown's Body (chosen by the Book of the Month Club for August). Said he, "I was not sure that it was a grand poem. I had worked over it for so long I felt I had given birth to a piano...
Such an accident disabled two of the four turbines of the Ile de France, in the harbor of Havre last Fall; and she did not sail again until Spring. But, in the words of the goaded French Line: "Various giant liners, of various lines, have suffered this unavoidable misfortune. ... It is to be hoped that there will soon be an end to the unauthentic . . . unwarranted . . . utterly false . . . rumors . . . now coming, we presume, from sources interested in undermining the position of our new flagship. . . . The turbines of the Ile de France were built in England by the most famous manufacturers...
Final vindication of the Ile de France as a safe ship came, last week, when she was boarded by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, whose famed nickname is "Nervous Nelly." At the pier, he exhibited a nervous indecision between taking an elevator to the embarking platform or climbing up the stairs. Finally he climbed. Both Secretary & Mrs. Kellogg not only admonished their porters to be careful but kept a watchful eye upon them, lest they jerk off a worn trunk handle or dent a new suitcase. But Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg did board the Ile de France, and settled down...
Other Plans. The North German Lloyd Line is building two liners at Bremen, intended to be the fastest ships afloat. The French Line contemplates a ship larger than its 43,500-ton Ile de France; and the Italian Line is seriously thinking of two of nearly like size...