29. New York Journal of Commerce, April 13, 1923, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 4 (Newport News, VA: Mariners’ Museum, 1978), p. 179.
30. “Southampton Keen to Greet Leviathan,” New York Times, July 10, 1923.
31. W. F. Gibbs, as quoted in New York Journal of Commerce, February 16, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 111.
32. Shipping Board Operations, Hearings Before Select Committee on U.S. Shipping Board Operations, House of Representatives, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Second Session, Reconditioning of U.S.S. Leviathan, Part 4, p. 1366.
33. Marine News, May 1923, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, pp. 216–17.
34. Frank O. Braynard and Robert Hudson Westover, S.S. United States: Fastest Ship in the World (Paducah, KY: Turner, 2002), p. 25.
35. New York Journal of Commerce, September 7, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 132.
36. P. A. S. Franklin to William Francis Gibbs, September 19, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 133.
37. William Francis Gibbs to P. A. S. Franklin, September 22, 1922, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 133.
38. William Francis Gibbs, “America’s Ability To Do,” Management Engineering 4, no. 5 (May 1, 1923), as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, pp. 212–13.
39. Winthrop Sergeant, “The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, pp. 52–53.
8. THE PARVENU
1. Herbert Hartley, Home Is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), p. 83.
2. Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 2 (New York: Fort Schuyler Press, 1976), p. 271.
3. New York Sun and Globe, June 25, 1923, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 274.
4. “Leviathan Breaks World Speed Record in 25-Hour Spurt,” New York Times, June 24, 1923.
5. “The S.S. Leviathan—Views and Information on the Ritz-Carlton Room, Library and Winter Garden,” Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives, http://www.gjenvick.com/UnitedStatesLines/1923-TheSteamshipLeviathan-Section-2.html, accessed October 19, 2009.
6. New York Times and New York Tribune, May 6, 1923, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, p. 215.
7. “Leviathan Sails with 1,700 Aboard as 10,000 Cheer,” New York Times, July 5, 1923.
8. Oran McCormack, The World as Oran McCormack Saw It (Boston, MA: printed by author, 1939), pp. 77–78, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 2, pp. 310–11.
9. “Cheer Leviathan at Southampton,” New York Times, July 11, 1923.
10. President Warren G. Harding, as quoted in “Leviathan Twice Passes the France,” New York Times, July 6, 1923.
11. “Cheer Leviathan at Southampton,” New York Times, July 11, 1923.
12. “Leviathan Guests Marvel at Change,” New York Times, July 13, 1923.
13. William Francis Gibbs, as quoted in New York Herald Tribune, n.d., probably July 12, 1923, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them: The Life and Ships of William Francis Gibbs 1886–1967 (New York: Gibbs & Cox, 1968), pp. 189–90.
14. “U.S. at War: Technological Revolutionist,” Time, September 28, 1942, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773637-5,00.html, accessed August 4, 2010.
15. William Francis Gibbs, as quoted in New York Herald Tribune, n.d., probably July 12, 1923, as quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, pp. 189–90.
16. Proposed Sale of Certain Ships by the United States Shipping Board, Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee of Commerce United States Senate, Sixty-Ninth Congress, Second Session Pursuant to S. Res.294 Requesting the Shipping Board to Postpone the Consummation of the Sale or Charter of the “Leviathan” and Certain Other Vessels Operated by the Board, Part 8 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1927), p. 251.
17. White Star Advertisement, ca. 1925, as quoted in John Maxtone-Graham, The Only Way to Cross (New York: Collier Books, 1978), p. 169.
18. “Leviathan Awakens American Interest in Shipping,” Marine Engineering and Shipping Age 28, no. 8 (August 1923), p. 455.
19. Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 4 (Newport News, VA: Mariners’ Museum, 1978), p. 364.
20. Edward Ellsberg, “Structural Damage Sustained by S.S. Majestic,” International Marine Engineering 29, no. 8 (August 1925), p. 430.
21. Interview of Norman Zippler by Frank O. Braynard, November 26, 1969, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 4, p. 364.
22. George Horne, “Skipper of the Blue Ribbon Liner,” New York Times, July 13, 1952.
23. Florence Manning to Steven Ujifusa, November 14, 2010.
24. “Invasion, 1952,” Time, June 23, 1952, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,859829-6,00.html, accessed December 12, 2008.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Interview between Frank O. Braynard and Captain J. Linder, December 26, 1969, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 3 (New York: Fort Schuyler Press, 1976), p. 161.
30. Interview of Harry Manning by Frank O. Braynard, November 22, 1969, as quoted in Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship, vol. 4, p. 134.
31. William Francis Gibbs, untitled article, Nautical Gazette, early 1927, as quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 47.
32. “Invents Aerial Torpedo with Uncanny Precision,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 1917.
33. Social Register, Philadelphia 1924, vol. 38, no. 3 (New York: Social Register Association, 1923), p. 102; Social Register, Philadelphia 1926, vol. 40, no. 3 (New York: Social Register Association, 1925), p. 106.
34. Letters of Administration for the Estate of W. W. Gibbs, Register of Wills, City of Philadelphia, Number 465, Book 27, p. 113.
35. Winthrop Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 56.
9. MRS. WILLIAM FRANCIS GIBBS
1. “Dinner Guests Hear Mrs. Larkin is Wed,” New York Times, January 7, 1927.