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...Where was the captain? No one knew. No alarm was given, no ship's officer appeared on the bridge to give the order to abandon ship or to stand fast. The purser told the passengers that the Champollion was aground off Israel, and that the city ahead was Haifa. "Everything is fine," he added cheerily...
...Lidia Serpa, 25, startled the captain, two copilots, stewardess, purser and 51 passengers (including herself) of a Pan American plane flying between Puerto Rico and New York by giving birth to a 6-lb. girl 8,000 ft. over the Atlantic Ocean...
...purser was just reaching for a brandy and soda when he heard a sound like firecrackers exploding. A 120-ft. ship, bristling with guns, had slipped out of the darkness and was raking the Wing Sang with bullets. "Pirates!" someone cried. Captain Ronald G. Stanton ordered full speed ahead, but when the pirate ship pumped shells into the Wing Sang from two Oerlikon guns, he saw that he could not get away...
When his father cut off his allowance, he sold apples on Wall Street, peddled New Jersey real estate, rented out his raccoon coat through the 1929 football season ($12 a weekend), worked as a Grace Line assistant purser...
...lance reporter named Richard Yaffe, just how his one-man escape act had been worked. He had simply gone to Manhattan's Pier 88, bought a 25? visitor's ticket to the Batory, and gone aboard. When the ship got past Ambrose Light, he reported to the purser and paid for passage. "I gave the U.S. authorities a chance to correct their uncivilized attitude toward my person, and to stop using me as a bogey man," said Gerhart. "But [they] did not take the chance. I have another purpose in life than to be watched...