Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That attraction, advertised in facsimiles of century-old handbills, was just one of the highlights of a show that jammed the St. Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year-old Museum Director Perry Rathbone, who first thought of it while he was serving in a New Caledonia naval base during the war. "I was suffering from a strong attack of nostalgia," Rathbone explains. His idea was to "reveal the look and character of the mid-continent's waterways...
...Germany's past kept cropping up during the day. One stolid old politician wanted a verse of Deutschland über Alles included in the ceremonies. And there was the riverboat contretemps. Bonn, desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel...
Esprit de corps, especially necessary to successful rowing, flourished among the Elephants. In fact, House Master John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, was so impressed by the House crow's zest for the riverboat life that he threw a party for it when it successfully completed its season...
Those who could followed the government's lead. Nanking's exits were choked day & night by streams of carts and automobiles heading for open country. Chinese riverboat captains no longer even dared let down their gangplanks at Nanking. From a safe distance offshore, they threw ropes to as many passengers as they could haul aboard. After the sinking of the overloaded SS Kiangya (see below), the military finally stepped in and took over all transportation facilities...
...Riverboat Captain Tom Reynolds, who wasn't much interested in gathering material for a thesis, was willing to navigate his 27-year-old showboat Majestic for the professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade...