Word: staterooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes the hazards are greater. Lucille Ball once had to walk off a Chicago stage when hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first...
Shirley May was looking for glory, perhaps even a Hollywood contract, but last week she was seasick. On the Dutch luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam, eastbound, a steward with a tempting tray knocked at her stateroom door. "Come back later, much later," moaned Shirley May. "How I wish I could get off this ship and swim the rest...
...storm, surf watchers on the tip of Cape Cod saw the Portland, among the snarled and yelping seas, just off the treacherous Peaked Hill Bar. The storm closed in, and the day wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they...
...Sacred Cow was over Ohio, the President was dozing on a cot in his stateroom, when the radio message came. Martha Truman had died. When he had read the message, the President said: "Well, now she won't have to suffer any more." Dry-eyed and silent, he turned to gaze for a long time at the checkerboard countryside below...
Sixty Telegrams. It was a riotous marriage. The newlyweds sailed for Europe with the ceiling of their honeymoon stateroom blanketed with orchids. After one tempestuous quarrel Evalyn chartered a yacht, left her husband. He sent her 60 consecutive telegrams begging forgiveness, and she came back. One day at Carder's, McLean spent $154,000 on a present which was to be inseparably linked with her name for the rest of her life-the baleful, blue Hope Diamond, which had supposedly brought death or disaster to all who had owned...