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Having been briefed by the chief steward on any VIPs aboard, Manning then sets out to meet them. He doesn't like this part of a skipper's job, but the commodore is a determined man, and has taught himself some of the social graces. He invites small groups, in shifts, to cocktails before lunch and dinner; if they stay too long, he politely gets rid of them by saying he is needed on the bridge...
...expert on many subjects, and occasionally astounds his guests. On one trip across with New York's ex-Representative Joe Baldwin, he and Baldwin traded lines from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Manning puts his best social foot forward dancing. He has standing orders with the chief steward to steer the best dancers in his direction. Says Manning with a grin: "The only reason I'm on these ships is that I can tango...
...arrived. A tall, kindly Quaker from Philadelphia, she sailed for Japan on Oct. 1, 1946, took up her new duties within the palace moat exactly 17 days later. But she soon learned that her duties involved more than teaching English. "We want you," said the Emperor's Grand Steward, "to open windows on to a wider world for our Crown Prince...
...philosophical Winter Cruise, in which a ship's captain assigns a handsome young French steward to make love to a garrulous, middle-aged spinster (Kay Walsh) in order to stop her from talking. The spinster gives everyone a lesson in humility when she lets on at the last that she was aware of the dodge all along. In Kay Walsh's eloquent performance, the vignette has both pathos and point...
Unlike his three-year-old son Prince Charles, who on his mother's accession automatically became Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Grand Steward of Scotland, the Duke of Edinburgh has no change in titular status: he is still simply the Queen's husband. It is an awkward and difficult position. His last predecessor was Victoria's German-speaking husband, and Britons took a long time getting used to Albert. Philip, born in Corfu and once sixth in line for the Greek throne, is a great...