Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wreck of the Mary Deare (Blaustein-Baroda; M-G-M). It was a dark and stormy night. The Sea Witch, a salvager out of Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge...
Cured: "Manager's Sickness." The new Bremen is slower (six days from Southampton at 23 knots) and smaller (32,336 tons) than the old, which carried twice as many passengers (2,231 v. 1,122). But Lloyd plans to pitch its appeal to tourists who want leisurely travel, non-dress-up luxury and fine, hearty food. Probably his best year-round clientele, figures Director Bertram, will be ocean-hopping businessmen who need a respite from the jet pace (some German firms now require executives flying the ocean to return by ship...
...trade unionist and the Socialist lady sheriff of Southampton, Stonehouse sat at the feet of Harold Laski at the London School of Economics, is a great man for causes. No sooner had he landed in Salisbury on a five-week tour of Africa than the whites were up in arms...
...Magowan lives as every salesman would like to. He has five houses across the U.S., ventures forth from his great whitestone house (eight bedrooms) overlooking San Francisco Bay for quick trips to his Spanish-style beach house in Southampton, L.I. (swimming pool and tennis court), his five-story town house in Manhattan (East 69th Street), or his pink Palm Beach house. (Magowan rents another Southampton house to Mrs. Cyrus McCormick.) With his pretty wife Doris, he moves through the top echelons of San Francisco's moneyed, operagoing society, is a trustee of Grace Episcopal Cathedral. He plays bridge...
Fate Accompli. In Southampton, England, 21-year-old Pakhar Singh told army recruiters that he had hitchhiked 12,000 miles from Malaya through India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland and France to join the British army because he wanted "to see the world...