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Four Aces. The 9,644-ton, 17-knot Excalibur, first of the American Export Lines' postwar "4 Aces," sailed from New York harbor on its maiden run to the Mediterranean, reopening the line's first-class travel after eight years. Excalibur has a swimming pool and air-conditioned cabins and carries 124 passengers. Her three sisterships, Exochorda, Exeter and Excambion (replacing vessels lost during the war) will go into service in the next two months...
...woman who stood, almost in tears, among the knot of spectators broke in: "It was our girl, Wilma...
...betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
...rehearsal was over; the guest conductor stepped down from the podium. Said Maestro Toscanini, who had been sitting quietly in a back seat scrutinizing the score: "Now! That man really knows how to play that music ... I play it like a pig!" The little knot of courtiers around Toscanini hastened to assure him that it wasn't so. The old man turned on them with one of his sudden, unpredictable thunderclaps: "Oh, so you think I don't know music?" As he marched off he sputtered: "The trouble with all of you is-you have all been poisoned...
...knot Lurline, also a troopship during the war, had been stripped and rebuilt from the hull up. Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates had designed lanai (porch) suites with private sundecks and air-conditioned cabins that were combination living and bedrooms. First-class fare: $150, up to $850 for the lanai suites...