Dixie Reunion

Three months ago, when the Morgan Liner Dixie was grounded in a hurricane in the Florida Straits, her 231 passengers spent some 60 hours face to face with the greatest terror of their lives. Kept from their staterooms by sloshing sewage and seawater, they huddled about the smashed furniture in the ship's public rooms, sang, peered through rain-drenched windows at the waiting ships which finally succeeded in rescuing them all (TIME. Sept. 16).

Last week, 124 of the 231 went back, cooing with pleasure, to these same public rooms for a reunion unique in shipwreck history. Pulled off the reef, the Dixie. had been completely repaired in jig-time at a cost of $468,000. Ready to return to her regular run between New York and New Orleans, she was docked in Manhattan while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered reminiscences, cheered the captain, gurgled effusive compliments to the Morgan Line.

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