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...York harbor, the Washington, one of the two largest U.S. passenger liners, was getting ready to sail for England. At the last minute the sailing was canceled. Reason: the United States Lines, which runs the Washington for the War Shipping Administration, had refused to fire an assistant purser whom the crew, members of the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union, did not like. So members of the N.M.U. refused to sign on the Washington. The War Shipping Administration ordered the Washington sent to a shipyard for reconversion to peacetime travel...
...mute who didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti...
...camps where the travelers are housed and fed until the night they crowd aboard a little tramp ship for the voyage to Palestine. Sometimes they leave from other, poorly organized ports. Last week 1,014 Jews were stranded at La Spezia on the Ligurian coast; they were resolved to sail aboard an old 750-ton wooden cargo boat, the Fede, jampacked with canvas cots in fantastic, seven-tier rows...
...wives were eager to go anyhow. By the time the Barry reaches Bremerhaven, another transport will be at sea, a third preparing to sail. Within a month, some 1,250 wives & children will have passed through New York's Fort Hamilton embarkation center. Said one wife of her husband: "I'd rather live with him in a bomb crater than go on with this separation...
...herself accredited as a foreign correspondent, stocked up on baby clothes, practiced pinning a diaper or two on some small relatives, and set sail. In Holland she had her first international labor pains. The adoption laws were much too strict. She went on to Rouen. There she found a baby she wanted, but there were drawbacks. Little Patrick was colored, and anyway his father, a G.I. from Brooklyn, wanted...