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...Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being reconverted...
Died. Sir Percy Elly ("Chin") Bates, 67, long-jawed, longtime chairman of the Cunard White Star Line, who advocated, planned and finally saw constructed the giant liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ; of a heart attack, a few hours before he was to board the Queen Elizabeth for her maiden peacetime voyage (see BUSINESS) ; in London...
Albion's maiden envoy will embrace...
...vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came back with minor blue-penciling and a marginal note: "Let's be amusing, but not vicious...
...When his mother died, her place in the gloomy Beyle home at Grenoble was filled by insipid maiden aunts and didactic priests and governesses. Young Henri's life was soon charged with the ideas and feelings that persisted until the day he died-a horror of the established order in family, church and state, and an insatiable appetite for romantic passion...