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Died. Harold Keates Hales, 74, eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an impressive trophy to bestow (temporarily) every time a ship broke the speed record. Last ship to win it was the Queen Mary. Hales was curiously in & out of the news all his life: he flew an airplane around St. Paul's Cathedral in 1908; when he was a Conservative...
...speedy version of the old, nearly two knots slower (average speed: 20.7 knots); less roomy (1,300 passengers); 13 feet shorter (length overall: 722 feet), but 4,000 tons heavier. Built for comfort, she will never duplicate the speed record of the "Old Girl," who held the mythical Blue Riband 22 years, until Germany's Bremen took it away (Cunard White Star's Queen Mary now holds...
Simultaneously, Italy's rival merchant marine reorganized into four groups each covering one section of the seven seas and operating under a holding company named Finmare.* Finmare's first job will be to alter the Rex to try to recapture the Blue Riband of the Atlantic...
Entries for what he whimsically called "a new Blue Riband of the World's Soup Tureen" were called for in London last week by elegant Managing Director George Reeves-Smith of swank Claridges, the Berkeley and the Savoy. His hostels, Mr. Reeves-Smith announced, will award a Silver Jubilee Commemoration Cup and Medals for the three best recipes for vegetable soups, submitted by cooks the world over...
...medals are humbug", announces Professor Rasmus Bjorn Anderson of the University of Wisconsin as he refuses the Cross of St. Olaf offered him by the King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...