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...envied Paul Gauguin, the Kungsholm departs Jan. 12 for a 94-day voyage to the South Pacific, calling at such Conradic ports as the Marquesas, Moorea and Tahiti. Average fare: about $6,500. For those who prefer the fictional accomplishments of Phileas Fogg (after all, Gauguin died broke), the Gripsholm will allow passengers to go round the world in 86 days, with stops at India, Ceylon and Singapore, etc. ($3,665 for a double-occupancy inside cabin; $10,110 for a topside single). For those who find beaches tiresome, Lindblad Travel Inc. offers a two-week journey to the South...
Five years ago, they decided to ease back into the passenger business, started off with the 19,100-ton Swedish hospital ship Gripsholm (cost: $2,500,000) to save the time and money of building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years ago from the French Pasteur, which had been launched in 1939. Lloyd rebuilt her completely at an overall cost of $25 million. Says Bertram: "The same ship would cost $44 million starting from scratch, and we wouldn't get delivery before 1963." Entering New York harbor last week, Bremen...
...glad to sell their prized possessions for a few packs of cigarettes now have one of Europe's strongest currencies in their pockets. Shops are loaded with consumer goods and crowded with substantial-looking buyers. In the port of Bremerhaven, once severely damaged by bombers, the luxury liner Gripsholm, recently leased from Sweden, set sail last week for the U.S. on the first transatlantic voyage of a German-flag passenger ship since...
...tossing fireboats hovered around her. A "home-longing pennant"-42 meters long for the 42 months she was abuilding-fluttered from her aftermast. Other liners roared their welcomes to the Swedish American Line's Kungsholm* newest addition to the North Atlantic fleet and a big sister to the Gripsholm...
...time in Japan supervising it. He has already spent half his lifetime there. A teacher of economics at St. Paul's until 1941, he refused to leave Japan on the eve of World War II, and was taken into custody after Pearl Harbor. Repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm in 1942 he joined the U.S. Army and eventually served as a lieutenant colonel on MacArthur's G-2 staff. While never a formally constituted missionary, he knows the Japanese as few missionaries do. He has realized that the Japanese, a naturally religious people, are happy to find...