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American High Commissioner to Germany John J. McCloy, who likes his off-duty muscle-flexing (tennis, touch football), took his wife & two children for skiing on Kreuzeck Mountain in the Bavarian Alps. First day out, McCloy took a tumble, finished the run on rescue sled and cable car, boarded his special train to Munich, where Army doctors announced he had a minor ankle fracture...
...while in Austria, then took it home to Bavaria. Eventually he wrote to the abbot of Monte Cassino, offering to return the picture if he was hired to repair it himself. U.S. Occupation authorities traced the letter, briskly reclaimed the painting and sent it on to the Bavarian State Picture Gallery in Munich for authentification...
...other day until they were rained out." This afternoon, the Committee is featuring the St. Williams CYO Band on the City Hall Plaza. "They'll all be dressed as the Pifferari and playing bagpipes...or at least they sound like clarinets. It's an old Italian custom. Also a Bavarian rite of lighting four candles, one each week of advent. The mayor lights them; really great to see. The Camp Edwards Choral Arts Society will sing at that one. We even have Mme. Melba McCreery with a group of church soloists in the evening. She sang over forty times...
Almost every day this month, moving vans from Frankfurt-am-Main have lumbered into Bonn. Behind them trailed the chrome-grinning cars of U.S. occupation families, loaded with children, cats and dogs, Bavarian cuckoo clocks. Some 1,000 U.S. occupation employees and dependents attached to the Office of U.S. High Commissioner for Germany-HICOG for short-have moved to the capital. In overcrowded Bonn, they will jostle beside burgeoning French and British communities...
Three thousand workers toiled three years to build Adolf Hitler's sumptuous Bavarian "Eagle's Nest" atop a mountain at Berchtesgaden. Allied bombers in a few seconds blasted a group of chalets below it (including one of Hitler's and several for smaller Nazis), but left unharmed Hitler's high-perched eyrie, with its wide view of the white-tipped Austrian Alps. Since then verboten territory to Germans, the Berchtesgaden villas have been a red-hot G.I. tourist attraction. Souvenir hawkers have stripped them, selling tiles from Hitler's bathroom to G.I.s at 5 marks...