National Affairs: On Brambles Bank

Steamship skippers, like horsemen and motorists sensitive to what they drive, say that a ship you are used to never feels quite the same after she has been handled a while by someone else. In the case of the S. S. Leviathan, the saying would hold specially true for a man who last handled her during the War, when her German name, Vaterlard, had just been erased and before she was remodeled to be the luxurious flagship of the U. S. Lines.

Captain Harold A. Cunningham, the Leviathan's present skipper, is such a man. But when last week, on his very first...

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