7. 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. 195–96.
8. Geoffrey T. Hellman, “Talk of the Town: And the Big Ship,” New Yorker, June 14, 1952, p. 23.
9. Frank O. Braynard and Robert Hudson Westover, S.S. United States: Fastest Ship in the World (Paducah, KY: Turner, 2002), p. 122.
10. George Horne, “His Fair Lady: After four years, the superliner United States is still a consuming passion with the Pygmalion who created her,” New York Times, June 22, 1956.
11. As quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 194.
12. Larry Driscoll, “Captain of the Line: An Interview with Captain John S. Tucker,” Steamboat Bill 266 (Summer 2008), p. 8.
13. Interview of Jim and Frieda Green by Steven Ujifusa, May 4, 2008.
14. William Krudener, as interviewed in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting, directed by Robert Radler and produced by Mark B. Perry, Big Ship Films LLC, 2008.
15. William H. Miller Jr., S.S. United States: The Story of America’s Greatest Ocean Liner (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 116.
16. William Krudener, as interviewed in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting.
17. Excerpt from journal of Vera Cravath Gibbs, September 1955, as quoted in 2006 S.S. United States Conservancy Calendar (Raleigh, NC: SS United States Conservancy, 2006).
18. Ibid.
19. Eugenia McCrary, as quoted in 2006 S.S. United States Conservancy Calendar.
20. Interview of Cissy Levy by Steven Ujifusa, September 22, 2008.
21. Miller, S.S. United States, p. 142.
22. Lauren E. Landers-Kirk, “The Windsors Are Aboard,” http://uncommonjourneys.com/pages/windsors.htm, accessed September 1, 2007.
23. John S. Tucker, as quoted in Driscoll, “Captain of the Line,” p. 8.
24. As quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 175.
25. Interview of William Krudener and Joseph Rota by Steven Ujifusa, March 4, 2008.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Jim and Frieda Green, as interviewed in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting.
29. Recollection by the author’s grandmother, Judith Follmann, ca. 2005.
30. Interview of Frank X. Nolan III by Steven Ujifusa, August 24, 2010.
31. Interview with Kurt Wich by Steven Ujifusa, October 3, 2010.
32. Interview of Joseph Rota by Steven Ujifusa, January 28, 2008.
33. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 148.
34. “Andrea Doria,” Lost Liners, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/andrea.html, accessed June 14, 2009.
35. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” p. 148.
27. TROUBLE ASHORE
1. Richard Austin Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” Fortune, August 1957, p. 160.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 158.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. 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. 197.
8. Ibid.
9. “A Decade and Miss Cornell,” New York Times, March 1, 1936.
10. Interview of Katharine Cornell by Frank O. Braynard, in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, pp. 189–90.
11. Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 1977.
12. William Francis Gibbs, transcription of speech given at the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Mass Media Awards Dinner, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, January 27, 1960, William Francis Gibbs Collection, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
13. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” pp. 138–39.
14. Excerpt from journal of Vera Cravath Gibbs, September 1955, as quoted by 2006 S.S. United States Conservancy Calendar (Raleigh, NC: SS United States Conservancy, 2006).
15. Winthrop Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 62.
16. New Yorker, November 16, 1957, as quoted in Braynard, By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them, p. 177.
17. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 66.
18. Edna Herman, “Vacation Ho!” Compass Points, July–August 1952, p. 9, collection of Lawrence W. Ward.
19. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” New Yorker, June 6, 1964, p. 68.
20. Interview with Lindsay Falck by Steven Ujifusa, August 18 and 24, 2009.
21. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” p. 154.
22. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 66.
23. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” p. 154.
24. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 64.
25. Susan Gibbs, as interviewed in S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting.
26. Paula Gibbs, “Dogs I Have Known and the People They Have Loved,” Wiscasset Newspaper, January 15, 2004.
27. Christoper Gibbs to Vera Cravath Gibbs, September 11, 1967, William Francis Gibbs Collection, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA.
28. Sergeant, “Profiles: The Best I Know How,” p. 58.
29. Ibid.
30. St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, Parish Profile, August 2004, p. 1, www.stclementsnyc.org/profile04.doc, accessed June 23, 2009.
31. Smith, “The Love Affair of William Francis Gibbs,” p. 160.
28. NO TIME TO SAY GOOD-BYE
1. Interview of Joseph Rota and William Krudener by Steven Ujifusa, March 4, 2008.
2. Interview of Joseph Rota by Steven Ujifusa, January 27, 2008.
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Authorizing the Construction of Two Superliners,” July 15, 1958, in John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, eds., The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11130, accessed April 15, 2009.
4. Jean Marie, as quoted in Frank O. Braynard and Robert Hudson Westover, S.S. United States: Fastest Ship in the World (Paducah, KY: Turner, 2002), p. 115.
5. John Malcolm Brinnin, The Sway of the Grand Saloon: A Social History of the North Atlantic (New York: Delacorte Press, 1971), p. 539.
6. Interview of Joseph Rota by Steven Ujifusa, January 27, 2008.
7. Werner Bamberger, “Walkout Delays S.S. United States,” New York Times, June 13, 1958.
8. Edward A. Morrow, “Deadlock Stands in Shipping Strike,” New York Times, October 3, 1958.
9. William H. Miller Jr., S.S. United States: The Story of America’s Greatest Ocean Liner (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 171.
10. Braynard and Westover, S.S. United States, p. 139.
11. McCandlish Phillips, “Superliner Gets Landlubber Help,” New York Times, January 31, 1965.
12. Ibid.
13. Braynard and Westover, S.S. United States, p. 142.