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Sixteen hours before flames swept the $5,500,000 luxury liner off the New Jersey coast, acting Capt. William F. Warms told government investigators, Capt. Robert R. Wilmott, her master, was so fearful one of his officers would attack him with sulphuric acid that he locked himself in his cabin...
...York's prodigious crash-bang-rattle-screech, in the estimation of Health Commissioner Shirley Wilmott Wynne, engenders juvenile neuroses. The city's Noise Abatement Commission has found classrooms in nearly one-third of the public schools so din-ridden as to be virtually useless. In its researches the Commission (which does no actual abating but carries on investigations of noise) uses the "decibel," which measures differences between sounds and absolute silence. One decibel represents a sound just audible. Ten decibels make one "bel" (named for the late Inventor Alexander Graham Bell), which represents roughly the amount of sound...
Clive's mother, Monica Wilmott, with her golden hair twisted about her head "was like a falcon, a jar of honey, a spray of rosemary." Victorian at heart, she had, years before, rebelled against the fast vulgarity of the military set in India-but since her husband's death she had supported herself and her son: the office, the antique shop, the millinery establishment had made her something of a modern...