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...With Ile de France, clear weather arrived. From Andrea Doria survivors saw a calm ocean "that would make their rescue easier, a wan moon overhead, and across the water the French liner closing in, with all lights turned on to cheer them. Searchlights fingered across the black water as monocled Captain Raoul de Beaudean maneuvered He de France to the leeward side of Andrea Doria to shelter the ten boats she was lowering from the wind...
...SUPERLINER will be built by the French Line to replace its aging Ile de France and Liberté. The $77 million ship will gross 53,000 tons, carry 2,007 passengers. First sailing...
Aboard the French liner Ile de France at a Manhattan pier, France's retiring Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, 66, whose charm and Gallic wit have entranced Washington for the past nine years, and Mme. Bonnet, a fixture on lists of the world's best-dressed women, were seen off for home amidst the popping of champagne corks. Just before sailing time, Diplomat Bonnet got a sisterly farewell kiss from a longtime family friend, glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich. Said he feelingly to his well-wishers: "I thank you for the happiest years in our lives...
...Grosse Ile, Mich...
...just as hard to land as the Ile...