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When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix...
Donald G. Swenson, Cornell University graduate, sailing on the lie de France, planned an unusual itinerary. Two days in the ship's engine room, four days in the dining room and steward's pantry, several weeks in the Hotel Ritz at Paris, more weeks at other famed European hotels, will complete Student Swenson's postgraduate course in hotel management. In the autumn, Manhattan's Hotel Astor will benefit by his experience...
...Wilson Howard, newspaper tycoon, glittering link of the Scripps-Howard chain, did not sail by the Leviathan. But Mrs. Howard and Daughter Jane sailed first class. Son Jack sailed as a steward, without telling his father...
Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh richman, killer of Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon...
Died. Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, Lord High Steward of Retford, Master Forester of Dartmoor, Keeper of St. Briavel's Castle, Earl of Lincoln and seventh Duke of Newcastle, 63; following a long illness; in London...