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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visibly ill of body and nerve. "Jimmy" Walker boarded the Europe-bound S. S. Conte Grande, locked himself away. Betty Compton, his friend, also sailed, with her mother. Aboard were newshawks, crossing to return on the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. Miss Compton & mother visited the Walker suite. The Walker valet. Greenhouse, deckwalked the Compton dog. Mr. Walker finally emerged from his cabin, gave newshawks an ancient wisecrack about his whiskers growing so long he must shave or buy a fiddle, and denied that he was about to return a visit to the Maharajah of Mysore...
...dapper M. Marcel Olivier, recently elected president of the French Line. Accustomed to think internationally, M. Olivier appealed in his speech for a "Washington Conference" to end the present costly race between Britain, France, Germany and Italy, each of which has been squandering untold millions to build the champion liner of the Atlantic. "In the interests of that internationalism for which the world is striving," cried M. Olivier, "the French merchant marine is anxious to collaborate in avoiding wasteful competition...
Satisfied that the launching by France of the world's certainly largest and expected-to-be-fastest liner provided a suitable occasion for ending wasteful competition, President Lebrun and the other guests rose from their superb lunch and hurried to the launching platform as a few drops of rain fell. Nothing but the weather had been left to chance. It was impossible that Mme Lebrun should fail -as some eminent christeners have failed -to throw the champagne bottle soon enough...
...Union will be decorated with green sprays of pine and other shrubs. Dancing will be in the main lower common room, with refreshments served in the north wing. Sammy Liner's Metropolitan Orchestra will furnish music for the occasion...
Captain Henry S. Bauer of the Dollar Liner President Van Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...