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...ship he wanted was the Ile de France, the French Line's "Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic," winner of the Croix de guerre for service as a troopship during World War II. Stone got her, and last week he was ready to sink...
French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
Meanwhile, keeping an agreement with the French government, Writer-Producer-Director Stone had removed the name Ile de France from every part of the ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...
...ILE DE FRANCE, the 32-year-old liner that carried almost 700,000 passengers and soldiers across the Atlantic and other oceans, will be sold for scrap. French Line said the 45,330-ton ship had grown too aged and costly to operate...
Died. Henri Béraud, 73, French writer, toxic reactionary, anti-democrat, antiMason, anti-Semite, Anglophobe, 1922 winner of the Prix Goncourt for The Martyrdom of the Obese, a novel; on the island of Ile de Ré, France. Author of a 1935 essay entitled Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed...