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Died. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 55, heir to Standard Oil millions, owner of the "world's largest private swimming pool," thrice-married socialite; after long illness; in Southampton...
Same day at Southampton another group of people boarded another ship, which in her day had also been a Queen of the Seas. As they gathered round a long table under the dome of the main lounge, they were anything but gay. Most of them were solemn-faced businessmen in sack suits; a few were middle-aged women in fur coats. Like those on the Normandie, they had come for sentimental reasons-to bid for the fittings of R.M.S. Mauretania before that old & honorable ship should make her final journey to the shipbreakers' yards...
Least important factor in the West formula are the stories she writes herself, showing her surrounded by ineffectual admirers. In Goin' to Town, she has seven of these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
...event saddened many, it surprised few. As she aged, the Mauretania grew more & more expensive to operate. Two years ago her owners painted her famed old hull white, sent her on West Indies cruises. Last autumn she was tied up at Southampton with a skeleton crew aboard. In January the crew was dismissed, the four big stacks covered over, the 70,000-h.p. turbines shut down...
...worry until three years ago when he decided to go into the passenger business. From his 14 ships, all named after Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped to carry 300 passengers, the 14,000-ton Ilsenstein and Gerolstein 180 each. All three could still carry 450 cars apiece as against the 600 they carried as freighters. When tourists found they could go to Europe and back...