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Greta Garbo, shy nonpareil of the screen, boarded the Gripsholm for her first trip to Sweden since 1939. There were rumors that she planned to direct a Swedish picture (she has not played in one for Hollywood since 1941). Demure in a beige suit and hat, she gave reporters only a slow smile, a characteristically languid line: "I'm awfully tired. I had to get up very early this morning...
...constant, oozing fear." She became a monitor of the women's room, a member of the sanitation committee, one of the detail which picked the weevils out of the cereal. Eventually transferred to another internment camp in Shanghai, she was repatriated with her husband aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm, in December...
...more of World War II than most men their ages. Joe resigned from the Navy in August 1941, joined Major General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers staff as a civilian. Captured by the Japanese at Hong Kong, he posed as a working newsman, got himself repatriated on the Gripsholm. Then he rejoined Chennault as an Air Forces lieu tenant, was made a captain before the war's end. Brother Stewart, turned down by the U.S. Army because of high blood pressure, enlisted in the British Army, fought with the 16th Rifles in Africa and Italy as a machine...
These pictures of John Benjamin ("J.B.") Powell, onetime editor of the Shanghai China Weekly Review, show him 1) last week at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital and 2) when he returned on the Gripsholm after spending the winter of 1942 in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 7, 1942). He lost part of both feet from gangrene acquired by squatting for hours on the cold prison floor. Surgeons first tried tiny grafts of skin, later had to resort to large pieces of flesh from Powell's thigh. Since January, wearing two shoes on each foot (cost $212), Powell...
...Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship at Lisbon, and presented himself at the German consulate. He was quickly enrolled in espionage schools, introduced to Gimpel, started on the long voyage home, an accomplished traitor...