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...three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
From Progreso or Vera Cruz, it is an easy sail across the Gulf to the mouth of the Mississippi, and soon, from Caribbean ports like Puerto Barrios, the banana boats will again be putting out regularly for the voyage north to New Orleans. Many latinos-from Mexico and Yucatán and the other lands around the Caribbean-come mainly to shop in Canal Street department stores (where Spanish-speaking clerks are numerous), play in the French quarter (with its association with 18th-Century Spanish governors), study at Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine, and take treatment...
This week Major John Weir Foote, heroic "Padre X," who won a Victoria Cross at Dieppe (TIME, Feb. 25) was to sail from Halifax on a special mission: he would take the bones back with him to France, see them ceremoniously buried in a cemetery near Falaise. Said an official statement...
...banana hands such winds would have signaled hurricane warnings. For politically minded United Fruit was deeply involved in Dictators Ubico's and Carías' rise to power. But wily Sam Zemurray, United's big boss, radar-keen in detecting a gale, had fore-handedly trimmed sail. Now a United Fruit executive in Central America can hardly take a drink in the presence of a Honduran political exile without cursing the Carías tyranny. Says old (69) Sam Zemurray: "These are democratic times...
...Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...