Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13 3/4″ ad for the ships of the United States Lines, the S.S. United States and the S.S. America. This ad starts off with “A short sea story with an all star cast”. There are photos of four groups of people on the right-hand side; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hogan, Donald Burr and his wife Billie Worth, Frances Parkinson Keys and Rear Admiral Tully Shelley and has something to say about each of them. The ad then says “- Your 5-day houseparty to Europe on the new S.S. United States – Your vacation-at-sea on the S.S. America. Even if all you write is letters home, you have all the makings of a best seller. Your all-star cast is straight out of the pages of “Who’s Who.” Your setting is one of gracious living, sophisticated service, spiced with the romance and glamour of a sea-voyage. Your mealtime menus are a gourmet’s guide to America and Continental cuisine; the kitchens, the engine room – the whole ship…a handbook of efficiency and cleanliness. All in all, a “success story” that in a short span of two years has been “bought” by over 164,000 passengers”.
Source: September 1954 Holiday.
