Word: illingworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the dingy Southampton docks loomed the three gigantic orange stacks, the coruscating white superstructure of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth, Master. Her 1,020-ft. length and her towering height dwarfed the battered buildings of the blitzed waterfront. The tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged...
...lounges. Decks and rails that had been pitted with the initials of some of the 765,000 troops the Queen had carried in wartime were scraped smooth once more. Spick & span in new uniforms, many of her old crewmen were back to serve again under jovial Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, the Queen Mary's chief officer...
...Illingworth...
...your portfolio of war cartoons (Jan. 22 issue) you included a very powerful British war cartoon entitled "The Combat." You . . . attributed it to the wrong artist. It was done not by Klingworth, but by the well-known cartoonist L. G. Illingworth...
...timely example of able Cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth's art, see above...