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...middle-aged man packed in a stack of paintings. Hysterical from being stood upside down for seven hours, the man was taken, gabbling incoherent French, to the Jervis Street Hospital. There he identified himself as Maurice Carassus de Laboujac, 40, a French painter who, unable to secure a passport visa, had shipped himself as freight to his own Dublin exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Personal Appearance | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Very few facts can be gathered about Meyendorff's case. The New Republic of September 15 stated that he has been trying to get a visa for five years, and an article printed in the Boston Post some months ago revealed that Russia refused to take him back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNIST EX-STUDENT HELD ON ELLIS ISLAND | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

...Nancy Cunard, the British shipping family's 45-year-old problem child, tangled with immigration officials in New York harbor. They finally let Pola in despite the fact her papers were out of order. She had come from the Riviera. Nancy, who had come from Havana with no visa at all, settled on Ellis Island to await the next boat to England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Joyce made frantic efforts to get an exit visa so that he could take his family to Switzerland, scene of his World War I exile, birthplace of Ulysses. Thanks to influential friends (especially in the U. S. embassy), he finally procured a visa from Vichy. But the Swiss Government was fussier. At one point it refused to admit Joyce on the claim that he was a Jew. Then it demanded a $7,000 bond. The mayor of Zurich got the sum reduced to $3,500, which some Swiss friends got together. But on the day the Swiss entrance visa arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silence, Exile & Death | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

When Vichy finally granted a second visa, there was no gasoline for the drive from St. Gérand-le-Puy to Vichy. Defying police regulations, Giorgio Joyce bicycled to Vichy, begged every embassy and consulate for gasoline. Finally a bank clerk gave his last gallon of gas, which was enough to take the Joyces to the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silence, Exile & Death | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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