Word: gripsholm
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Ahead of the Gripsholm lies a long, weary journey. Not until Oct. 15 will she cast anchor in the Zuary River, inside the hilly coastline of Goa in Portuguese India...
...Swedish liner Gripsholm stood ready for another errand of mercy. Into her hold went medicine, clothing, cigarets, food packed by Red Cross volunteers who worked day & night shifts. Aboard went the pathetic little gifts, prepared with great hope and sorrow, by the families of the American men & women who are spending the war in Japanese prison camps...
...Gripsholm's returning passengers are lucky, they will be home - after "two years' imprisonment - by December. Of the 8,500 Americans interned in the Far East, only 1,250 can get aboard the ship...
...able-bodied must stay behind; the Gripsholm's passengers this time will be the aged, the ill, 300 children. They will require care: besides its load of toys for the children, the Gripsholm will carry four doctors, eight nurses...
...John Benjamin Powell, pre-Pearl Harbor editor of the China Weekly Review, came back to the U.S. late last summer, was carted straight off the exchange ship Gripsholm to Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion to be treated for: 1) gangrenous feet suffered in a filthy, ice-cold Jap prison cell; 2) emaciation that had reduced him from 160 pounds to half as much. Last week imperishable, cheerful Editor Powell was still convalescing, expects to be for many more weeks. But he now weighs 110, one foot is healed. When the other is ready, Powell will begin arduous exercises, finally will...