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...Stars & Stripes fluttered from the mainmast as Italy's sleek new liner Andrea Doria docked at Naples last week with the first woman envoy ever sent to Italy, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. As the gangplank went down, dignitaries rushed aboard with flowers for the ambassador, and 120 photographers and newspaperman, mostly Italians, followed in a torrent...
After the press conference in the ship's salon, she descended the steep gangplank, and on the pier waved a white-gloved hand to acknowledge cheers and shouts of welcome ("Benvenuta, Mrs. Luce!"). Then she and her husband Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, got into a U.S. embassy Chrysler for the 150-mile trip to Rome. As the car wheeled into Naples' streets, a clatter of applause and cheers rose from a crowd of more than 1,000 Neapolitans who had lined the square outside the port area in hopes of catching a glimpse...
...Francisco, the pier was jam-packed with welcomers, including a Japanese-American Boy Scout band, two lines of Japanese-American girls dressed in kimonos and carrying paper flags, a Hawaiian merchant trying to push his way up the gangplank with four imperial Stetsons for the Crown Prince and his party, and California's Governor Earl Warren. Akihito waved to them all from the bridge. He shook hands with the governor, read another statement in Japanese ("I shall never forget the magnificent sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, the tranquillity of San Francisco Bay, and the beauty of the city...
Hurrying down the gangplank of the United States after it docked in Manhattan, elusive Greta Garbo spotted reporters and photographers, stopped abruptly, put on a pair of dark glasses, continued silently...
...lowering fog that shrouded the cliffs of Dover one morning last week, an unseen foghorn moaned. As if summoned by the echoes, 178 sallow-faced workmen, each carrying a brown paper parcel or a battered cardboard suitcase, trudged along the quay of Dover Marine Station and straggled up the gangplank of a trim Belgian steamer, the S.S. Koenig Albert. The men were Italian miners, recruited to dig coal in fuel-hungry Britain; they were being sent away because British miners refused to work with foreigners (TIME, May 26). Most will find jobs in Belgian pits...