2. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, An American Musician’s Story (New York: Read Books, 1939), p. 259.
3. “Profiles: Public Man,” New Yorker, January 2, 1932, p. 21.
4. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 154.
5. “Dinner Guests Hear Mrs. Larkin is Wed,” New York Times, January 7, 1927.
6. Ibid.
7. “Notes of Social Activities in New York and Elsewhere,” New York Times, August 14, 1929.
8. “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.
9. Winthrop Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 62.
10. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” p. 158.
11. Vera Cravath Gibbs to Carl Van Vechten, November 14, 1939, Carl Van Vechten Correspondence, JWJ Carl Van Vechten, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
12. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 64.
13. Christmas card from Francis C. Gibbs to William Francis Gibbs (n.d.), William Francis Gibbs Collection, Mariners’ Museum, MS 179 Box 16, Newport News, VA.
14. Paula Gibbs, “Dogs I Have Known and the People They Have Loved,” Wiscasset Newspaper, January 15, 2004.
15. Interview with Lawrence W. Ward, September 21, 2010.
16. Robert T. Swaine, The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819–1948, vol. 2 (privately printed, 1948), p. 4, as quoted in Kai Bird, The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 62.
17. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 64.
18. Interview by Durward Primrose, 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), p. 36.
10. MALOLO
1. Pacific Marine Review, as quoted by Theodore E. Ferris, in Hearings Before the Commerce Committee, United States Senate, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. Res.170, Directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate All Matters Connected with the Building of Merchant Vessels Under the Direction of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and Report Its Findings to the Senate, Together with Its Recommendations Thereon (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918), p. 2311.
2. William Hovgaard, “Biographical Memoir of David Watson Taylor, 1864–1940,” National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Biographical Memoirs, vol. 22, 7th memoir, presented to the academy at the annual meeting, 1941, p. 143.
3. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 139.
4. “Malolo Docks Here with Gash in Hull,” New York Times, May 29, 1927.
5. Ibid.
6. Frederic Gibbs, 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), p. 39.
7. “Malolo Docks Here with Gash in Hull,” New York Times, May 29, 1927.
8. William Francis Gibbs, “Malolo Collision Vindicates Safety Measures,” Marine Engineering and Shipping Age, July 1927, p. 400.
9. Ibid., pp. 499–500.
11. A GERMAN SEA MONSTER
1. John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic (New York: Delacorte Press, 1971), pp. 441, 471.
2. William H. Miller Jr., The Great Luxury Liners, 1927–1954: A Photographic Record (Mineola, NY: Dover, 1981), p. 10.
3. Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon, p. 446.
4. Commodore Herbert Hartley, Home Is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), pp. 147–48.
5. Jean dal Piaz, as quoted in John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie (New York: Norton, 2007), p. 34.
6. 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, January 4, 1927 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1927), pp. 248–50.
7. “Full Board Votes Ships to Chapman,” New York Times, February 15, 1929.
8. “Proposed Ship Sale Hit by Rival Bidder,” New York Times, February 14, 1929.
9. Ibid.
10. New York Times, February 15, 1929, 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. 256.
11. Pacific Marine Review, as quoted by Theodore E. Ferris, in Hearings Before the Commerce Committee, United States Senate, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. Res.170, Directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate All Matters Connected with the Building of Merchant Vessels Under the Direction of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and Report Its Findings to the Senate, Together with Its Recommendations Thereon (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918), p. 2311.
12. “Morro Castle: Turbo-Electric Ward Liner,” Marine Engineering and Shipping Age, September 1930, p. 474.
13. Ibid., p. 486; Investigation of the Burning of the Steamer Morro Castle: Copy of Testimony, Report, and Recommendations of Dickerson N. Hoover, Assistant Director, Made to the Secretary of Commerce, Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, New York, September 10–28, 1934, p. 11.
14. Investigation of the Burning of the Steamer Morro Castle, p. 10.
15. Wythe Williams, “Giant Bremen Sails on Maiden Voyage,” New York Times, July 17, 1929.
16. Waldemar Kaempffert, “The Race for Ocean Supremacy: What Is the Limit?” New York Times, August 18, 1929.
17. Dr. Ernst Foerster, “Speed and Power of Ships: The Effect of Recent Progress in Shipbuilding upon Speed, Power, and Economy in Propulsion,” Marine Engineering and Shipping World, May 1930, pp. 257–58.
18. “Talk of the Town: Toot! Toot! Toot!” New Yorker, January 19, 1935, p. 11.
19. Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon, p. 454.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. “The Blue Riband of the North Atlantic, Westbound,” http://www.greatships.net/riband.html, accessed November 28, 2008.
23. Kaempffert, “The Race for Ocean Supremacy.”
24. Archibald Horka, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard, The World’s Greatest Ship: The Story of the Leviathan, vol. 5 (Newport News, VA: The Mariners Museum, 1981), p. 233.
25. Cunard advertising brochure, ca. 1930, as quoted in Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon, p. 446.