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...wind. In the damaged lifeboat, five men died of exhaustion and exposure during the next 54 hours. By the third morning the remaining five, living armpit-deep in water, were almost too weak to move. That afternoon, as if by magic, the great steel bow of the U.S. Isbrandtsen Co. freighter Saxon loomed almost directly over their heads, framed by a rainbow as a sudden rain squall cut into the sunlight. Minutes later, the five survivors, of whom the eldest was 24, were safe on board. A sixth, the only man left in the lifeboat that had once held...
FIRST SHIPS released by Maritime Commission under emergency program to relieve ship shortage (TIME, July 2) will go to Isbrandtsen Line, which will get 15 mothballed Liberty ships from reserve fleet, use them to carry coal to Western European markets, where demand far outstrips supply. Lease arrangement is for 15% of ships' sale price, or $1,225,000 for total one-year charter...
Died. Hans Jeppesen Isbrandtsen, 61, Danish-born founder of the Isbrandtsen Steamship Co.; of coronary thrombosis; while on a world air tour, at Wake Island...
insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against the Washington Senators) still stands as a record; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Indianapolis...
...more than three days, the North Atlantic seemed to give up to Captain Kurt Carlsen and his crippled Flying Enterprise. The British tug Turmoil plowed homeward through a placid sea, her five-inch steel towline dragging the wallowing Flying Enterprise. Aboard the listing Isbrandtsen freighter, Carlsen and Mate Kenneth Dancy of the Turmoil settled down for the trip into Falmouth. People all over the world read the headlines, and hoped...