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...found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...
From the university seat of Heidelberg, TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson cabled this bucolic picture: "Old Heidelberg today slept in the April sunshine, in a cloud of appleblossoms, as tranquil and placid as the mirror-smooth Neckar River. Here the war seems something far away. On this Sunday, the first after Easter, the people of all the towns in the Neckar Valley were out in force for the great weekly business of churchgoing. The big men were richly dressed in tail coats and high hats, their great stomachs resplendently vested in oyster white or French grey...
...last week: "It was easy to part with the Beaver on political grounds, but it took a lot of courage to make a personal break . . . the old man is a fellow of great charm." He thereupon moved his leftist luggage over to the tabloid, sexy, socialist-supporting Daily Mirror...
...Reading these columns was like looking into a mirror, and many a man will find here the confirmation of what is written between the lines of letters from home...
...another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil old days before the war, he and his playfellows of Europe's smart set used to play roulette. Now the grimmer chances of history had closed France...