Word: gripsholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edouard Herriot had not died last fall, as Gripsholm repatriates reported. From the underground last week came word that France's aging (72), ailing Elder Statesman was alive, at his home near Lyon...
...sharp and lurid picture of wartime Paris-a city dancing with false gaiety on a rumbling volcano-reached the U.S. last week. It came from the New York Times' former Paris fashion correspondent, Kathleen Cannell, who arrived in Manhattan on the rescue-ship Gripsholm. She alone of all the diplomats, wounded veterans and chichi expatriates aboard, was fresh from the capital city of a captive nation...
Americans aboard the Gripsholm (see p. 26) brought the sad news from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal who was thrice Premier of France, 36 years Mayor of Lyon, always a tribune of the people...
...York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years as prisoners of the Japs...
Emily Hahn, rash, black-haired, late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know...