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News about conditions in the Reich came from U.S. newpapermen who had concluded an involuntary 13-month assignment in swanky Baden-Baden. They had been caught with U.S. diplomats and relief workers when the Nazis marched into Vichy. Now, exchanged for Germans and Frenchmen interned in the U.S., they were sailing home from Lisbon...
...Show in Baden-Baden. The "official" Americans were interned in the superluxurious Brenner's Hotel, one of Europe's showplaces. The food was sufficient, but far below the standards of a U.S. corner drugstore. There were many wealthy German vacationists around, with smartly dressed, silk-stockinged women and doctors' affidavits certifying their need of "cures...
Laval supinely-if helplessly-also acceded when the Germans seized 140 interned U.S. diplomats, relief workers, newsmen (TIME, Jan. 18) and transported them from Lourdes to Baden-Baden, to be held as hostages for Axis bigwigs seized in North Africa...
...Beard had organized the Sons of Daniel Boone and later the Boy Pioneers as magazine-circulation builders, but in 1910, when he joined with Ernest Thompson Seton and others to form the Boy Scouts of America (Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell had already formed the British Boy Scouts), the movement spread far beyond such aims...
...next night, an eastbound five-car passenger train plunged off the Pennsylvania main-line track along the Ohio River, near Baden, Pa. The locomotive toppled over on its side. Coal from the tender avalanched into the cab, buried the engineer. Coaches full of shocked and tumbled people rolled into the river...