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I have several hundred readers on my lists.


One reader, in response to mentioning the Italian liners and our new book Great Mediterranean Passenger Liners, wrote: "Yes, the Italian liners were quite wonderful, quite special. But myself, going to and from the Mediterranean, I preferred the Independence & Constitution. They were immaculate, crisply run, very American. And I was proud of them -- two of the finest liners on the Atlantic and they flew the red, white & blue!"