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...Italy, men who helped build Andrea Doria wept for her. At her New York pier, men and women wept for the kin they feared she had carried down. But to Manhattan at evening came Ile de France, first rescue ship to reach port. Slipping upriver to a hero's well-deserved cheers and whistles, the French liner docked, unloaded 750-odd survivors, and prepared to hurry off again that same night towards France. Some 30 of the survivors were gently carried on stretchers from the ship's infirmary down a gangway to waiting ambulances. On the fantail...
Among them: Captain Calamai, his uniform grimy, his braided cap gone, his face solemn and sad. Next day Stockholm limped in at seven knots and docked with more than 500 survivors. On the pier, some families who had gone from ship to incoming ship searching for kin turned and sadly walked away...
Minnesota's Hubert Horatio Humphrey. He has patched together his state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization after its stunning primary defeat by Estes Kefauver, is now edging back toward the center of the national stage. St. Paul's Representative Eugene McCarthy (no kin to Joe) has begun organizing a Humphrey-for-Vice-President movement. Humphrey, an effective orator, is the champion of high, rigid farm supports. Although he has risen in the estimate of his Southern Senate colleagues (Georgia's Walter George offered to campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly...
...Belt. Smith and the Phillies' management are sure that in Roberts they own baseball's biggest bargain. Even in front of a losing team he wins so often that he more than earns his salary (about $60,000, including income from endorsements)-and incidentally disproves Indiana Humorist Kin Hubbard's snide crack: "Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler...
...last U.S. winner, John A. Kelley of West Acton, Mass., was now called Kelley the Elder, and counted out by all but sentimentalists. But there was another Kelley in contention-Boston University Student John J. Kelley (no kin to John A.)-and also a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher, Nick Costes, to give the U.S. a chance for the Patriots' Day laurel wreath. The younger Kelley, a ten-year veteran at 25, had finished fifth in 1953, seventh in 1954. Costes had placed a strong third last year...