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...first night at sea. The 12,644-ton Stockholm, more tourist than tony, had sailed shortly before noon that day from Manhattan for Copenhagen. After she slipped out into the Hudson River, she idled in the stream while the larger (44,356 tons) lie de France swung from her pier down the Hudson. Then in file the two ships moved past Manhattan's towers, out through the Narrows into the open sea. By 11 p.m. Stockholm, lie de France and Andrea Doria were all churning through the busy, often angry water south of Nantucket, known as "the Times Square...
...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...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. The punk-to-puncher saga of ex-Con, ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano; with Paul Newman and Pier Angeli (TIME, July...