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...campaign, conducted largely through open letters to voters in the local newspapers, stressed two issues of great importance to the islanders, the Steamship Authority debt and Nantucket harbor improvement...
...deeply moving Andrea Doria story recalls an almost identical tragedy that occurred on Jan. 23, 1909, when the outbound steamship Republic was rammed in a heavy fog off Nantucket by the inbound Italian immigrant ship Florida. Before the Republic sank, her passengers were transferred to the badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when...
Niarchos put up $250,000 to keep it intact for the Louvre. On his visits to Greece, Niarchos hands out gold sovereigns on the streets of Athens like a rich man's John D. Rockefeller. Some of his more offhand gestures have included chartering a steamship for a royalty-only romp in 1954 chaperoned by Greece's Queen Frederika. Niarchos obligingly provided another steamer last summer so that Elsa Maxwell could take an all-star supporting cast (Olivia de Havilland, Aly Khan, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll) on a Mediterranean junket while Niarchos cruised the other...
Because of the great demand for transportation, most steamship lines and airlines have been booked solidly for the months of June and early July...
...Archibald E. King, 51, moved from executive vice president to president of Isthmian Lines Inc., descendant of the old Isthmian Steamship Co. Moving on from president to board chairman is Glenn B. Davis, 64, retired Navy vice admiral who joined the company in 1953. King, a veteran shipping executive, began his career in 1919, while still in high school, as a traffic clerk for Norton, Lilly & Co. He went to New York University, joined Isthmian in 1934 as assistant traffic manager. He moved up fast, became vice president in 1947 and executive vice president five years later...