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...stepped up to the Grace Line board chairmanship vacated by W. R. Grace & Co. President J. Peter Grace Jr. (Grace gave up the title to free himself for the diversified operations of the parent company.) Lapham comes by shipping naturally: his grandfather was co-founder of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., his father was onetime president and board chairman. Brooklyn-born, Lewis Lapham grew up in San Francisco, went East to school (Hotchkiss and Yale '31), worked as a ship news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner before he joined the family firm. During World...
...bubbles with sulphurous vapor and at irregular intervals shoots out molten rock. Japan has many active volcanoes, but Mihara is specially famed because of the romantic lovers who frequently kill themselves by jumping down its throat. Before World War II, 80 to 90 did this each year, and the steamship company that serves Oshima got rich on tourists who flocked to the island, they said, to watch the volcano, but really to watch the suicides...
...professor is not sure that he should make regular predictions of the eruptions of Mihara, once so fashionable for romantic suicides. Any increase in popular interest might make it the rage again. "There is a social problem," he says apprehensively. "The steamship company would advertise and make money...
...life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because his own future is the one thing the ball lacks the power to foretell, she marries the magician, who adores...
Rock Love (Fontane Sisters; Dot). An easy jump from the Fontanes' popular Hearts of Stone, but less comprehensible. Rock love is something a body has in the heart, like a steamship's giant gyrostabilizer, to keep from floundering on temptation or drifting with the storm...