March 31, 2007
Bon Voyage
Some few years back, Alice Furlaud turned up a souvenir, a ticket for two passengers on the Andrea Doria, sailing March 31, 1956, from New York to Naples, and she set down a remembrance in the pages of the New York Times.
Usually, friends seeing you off on those grand old ships would have brought along liquor or candy. Baskets of cellophane-covered fruit might have been sent on board from Maison Glass. At that Andrea Doria send-off one friend brought us a miniature chess set. We lost a queen overboard the second day out and replaced her with a tiny papier-mache Easter bunny that had decorated a box of gift candy.
Cooper Renner embarks for the Continent from Galveston, Texas on April 28.