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...Philipps, Lord Kylsant, sometimes called "Lord of the Seven Seas," chairman of the huge far-flung Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which includes among its many steamship lines the White Star. Last year Lord Kylsant was publicly accused of mismanagement by his brother Viscount St. Davids. Royal Mail stock sank swiftly and dangerously, Royal Mail passed its dividend (TIME, Dec. 23). Lord Kylsant, it appeared, had purchased investments in "other than shipping companies." Good-will was not augmented by the knowledge that Lord Kylsant draws a huge salary based on a percentage not of the profits, but of the gross...
...geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame. Human torches rushed about, dove vainly for relief into the blazing sea. Down came the lifeboats, their ropes burned away; down came the radio antenna, before an SOS was sounded. On the top deck Mrs. Neil A. Dayton, Wartime...
...Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal's Nose, famed bunker. Suddenly Jones found his putting touch. Needing a long putt for a half at the 17th to avoid going home one down, he sank it. It was his most important shot of the day. Voigt was weak climbing out of the Valley of Sin (swale in front of the 18th green) and Jones won this hole and the match...
Harvard's baseball team sank to its low point of the year, Saturday at Soldiers Field when the Holy Cross team wore itself out romping around the bases to pile up a total of 22 runs, while the scoreboard showed nine goose eggs for the Crimson. The University diamond forces showed a surprising slump in all departments of the game; two pitchers were knocked off the mound and nine errors were chalked up against the Cambridge nine...
...Eyes (Morse Players of St. Louis) and Maxine Finsterwald's Seven Against One (Association Players Stock Company, Manhattan) were the plays singled out for the two Samuel French (play publisher) $200 prizes awarded to the best unpublished dramas. In Eyes an old paralytic stared on while her grandchildren sank into corruption, but rose and walked when a ruffian tried to seduce her granddaughter in her presence. Seven Against One, played on a double stage, showed a group of patriotic priests praying for the death of a dictator who had jailed them. On the other side, the politician acutely suffered...