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Pearls & Sauce Cooks. A man who can afford to get tired of a place, he would take to train, plane or steamship whenever the urge hit him. He once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound...
...which is on record as favoring a good deal of competition among U.S. flag lines on the transocean airlanes, must approve the deal. So must President Truman. The merger is likely to be fought, not only by T.W.A., but by the American Export (steamship) Lines, Inc. American Export started American Overseas in 1937 to buck Pan Am, which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned...
Eastward Ho. San Francisco's 49-year-old American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. will move its headquarters to New York, leave its West Coast business in the hands of Williams, Dimond & Co., a wholly owned subsidiary. The reason, said President Lewis A. Lapham, who had moved to Manhattan six months ago, was that high operating costs had forced the line to consolidate its offices and concentrate on its intercoastal trade, which could be directed as easily from New York...
...year will center around the Radcliffe-sponsored trination tour of Belgium, France, and Holland. Early word of the mechanics of the tour has already been announced; students will probably travel in reconverted troopships and rates for undergraduates under the NSA plan will be only a fraction of the standard steamship rates...
...combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...