Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazis kept the 259 paintings in the Führer-bau of Munich for the sole reason of pleasing Hitler whenever he visited the city. When the end came, and the SS guards had fled . . . the people from the neighborhood, joined by D.P.s and liberated inmates of the Dachau camp, stormed the party buildings in search of scarce items. When all the food and liquor, and much of the furniture, had been carted off, they broke into the air-raid cellars where the paintings were stored, climbing over stacks of Panzerfaust grenades...
...Question of Sincerity. Lena Tobiansky sent her son to a children's camp, after changing their name to Bentov (son of goodness); but his identity leaked out and the other children called his father a traitor. Lena herself removed the shiny brass nameplate from her apartment door and moved to another part of the city...
...Trapps, the camp is far more than a musical outing; it is their own family experiment in living. Since the death of Baron von Trapp in 1947, the experiment has been presided over by handsome Maria Augusta Trapp, a woman with the charm and will of a medieval matriarch...
With touring in winter and running a camp in summer, what time is left for family life? "But this is family life!" Mrs. Trapp exclaims. "Martina paints and Agathe makes greeting cards and Maria does wooden candlesticks and Werner farms and we all sing together-we do things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...
Pillowcase. In Petersburg, Va., Jewelry Salesman Herbert Streiff asked that local laundries be thoroughly searched for $30,000 in precious stones which he had stuffed into his tourist-camp pillow for safekeeping...