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...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 ($1.20) apiece. Before handing back the mountainside to the Germans, the Army wanted to be sure that it would not become a neo-Nazi shrine. Last week the Bavarian state government agreed, decided to blow up the remains of the lower-altitude chalets, turn over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: End of an Eyrie | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...morning while shaving, Wolcott Ferris, prosperous insurance broker, froze before his bathroom mirror as if he had seen a shrunken head. He had seen something worse: his shrunken self. "What are you missing?" he asked his blue-grey eyes. "Why the hell do you exist? Why do you go on living?" Why had life been picked clean to the bones short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Babbitt | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...never stirred Americans, he stirred Asians. At Haneda Airport, he was mobbed by Japanese photographers; shaving in his bathroom at the Fujiya Hotel, he glanced out to see a photographer training a long-distance lens on him. He was the man who had come to liberate Japan. But bitterness also followed him. In the Philippines, he was lampooned on the radio and burned in effigy. He flew to Australia, New Zealand, Paris and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Peacemaker | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...himself co-starred with unwanted billing in an impromptu extravaganza featuring a part-time pal, blonde Actress Joyce Mathews, twice married to No. 1 Television Comedian Milton Berle and twice divorced. The show opened when Manhattan cops answered a frantic call from Rose. Joyce had locked herself in a bathroom of his luxurious private apartment over the Ziegfeld Theater. When the police arrived, Rose shrilled a few stage directions ("Don't tell any reporters about this! I want no publicity. It could ruin me! Please, no publicity."), then led the way to the barricaded bathroom, where police broke through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Poor Reception. In Memphis, Tenn., Peggy Roberson won a divorce after telling the court that when she inadvertently blocked her husband's view of the TV screen, he "threw a chair across the room, struck me, pulled me into the bathroom and held my head under water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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