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John Bohling, a German-born, 40-year-old New York metalworker, was just off the Gripsholm from his first visit to Germany in 23 years. While visiting relatives on a farm near Bremen, a childhood love had been rekindled in his heart. Now he stood uneasily beside his trunk in the customs shed on Manhattan's Pier 97. John Bohling's passion was illicit in America, and he knew...
Boarding the Swedish liner Gripsholm in Manhattan, bound for Moscow, Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik loftily vetoed newsreel and television requests for a parting statement. Apparently not yet accustomed to U.S. editors who cut superfluous words, he complained that his famous Korean cease-fire speech had been censored in part. Said the nettled delegate: "American newsreels and television cut out much of the things I said." With a little coaxing, however, Malik managed a stiff smile and a few careful words: "Best luck and wishes to those in this country who fight for peace and friendship between...
Boarding the Swedish liner Gripsholm in Manhattan, along with an uncommonly large collection of baggage, Russia's Ambassador to the U.S. Alexander Panyushkin was off to spend a month or possibly two months, on leave or possibly vacation, in Moscow or possibly along the Black Sea coast. For reporters at the docks, Ambassador Panyushkin had only one really definite piece of news: "The Soviet Union is always for peace in the world...
Actually it was an old story, but the spy-thriller was good for a one-day splash on U.S. front pages. Repatriated Americans on the Gripsholm had brought back most of the story to the U.S. in 1943, it had been published at least three times in the Japanese press since the war, and nine months ago the U.S. magazine Plain Talk carried it in full...
...months later, shot a picture series on the Philippines' preparation for war-which he sent off to LIFE one day before Pearl Harbor. He and his wife and fellow TIME correspondent, Shelley Smith Mydans, spent 21 months in Japanese prisons in Manila and Shanghai, were repatriated on the Gripsholm...