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...play an increasingly important press role. New York Times Travel Editor Paul J. C. Friedlander has a staff of five men and a secretary. Travel supplements proliferate, ranging from the Chicago Tribune, which prints one every week, to the Oakland Tribune, which produces two a year. Resort hotels, steamship companies, airlines and luggage manufacturers flock almost unbidden to advertise; last year the Chicago Tribune grossed $4,414,684 in travel ads, and the New York Times some $8,000,000; the Times travel ad lineage is up 300% from war's end. Yet, for all the highly respectable growth...
Major bonanza is the Canada Steamship Line's Kamloops, which went down off Isle Royale on Dec. 6, 1927, with a crew of 22 and, says Coghlan, $1,500,000 in papermaking machinery, plus liquor worth $750,000. Coghlan says he found the wreck in U.S. territory last Aug. 6 in 150 ft. of water, three-fourths of a mile off the island. U.S. park rangers chased him off, says Coghlan, and he was on his way to get permission to continue when the storm swamped his barge...
...week all England was agog over a real-life-setting of The Captain's Table. The captain: a tall, debonair Irishman named James D. Armstrong, master of the 28,000-ton Cunard liner Britannic, The plot: he had been royally sacked by Britain's staid, prosperous Cunard Steamship Co. just a few months before he was due to become master of the Queen Mary, and eventually commodore of the line...
...tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...
...leisurely state visit in the U.S.S.R., where he got the sort of red-carpet greeting ordinarily reserved for important allies, Ethiopia's wiry Emperor Haile Selassie, 67, took a sightseeing cruise down the Volga and through the Volga-Don Canal. At Stalingrad he took the helm of the steamship Arkady Geidar, gave a brief demonstration of seamanship to prove that the Lion of Judah is no landlubber...