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Salzburg's great music festival is traditionally dedicated to Mozart. For 30 years, thousands of visitors have flocked each summer to the ancient town which sprawls under its towering 11th Century fortress on the Mönchsberg, to file reverently through the house where Mozart was born, tramp across flag-bedecked Mozart bridge, sip wine in the Mozart cafe, take their clothes to the Mozart laundry...
...even symbolic Corregidor has escaped the rot. With inside help, raiders recently penetrated the island fortress, cut through its armory's steel doors, and with insolent leisure ferried truckloads of arms, ammunition and supplies-especially detonators, valuable in any guerrilla operation-down to their boats and away...
Soviet fighters over the open sea. Demanded: punishment for the offenders and indemnity for loss of ten U.S. lives and property. Received: (three days later) a flat Soviet refusal, which insisted that the plane was not a Privateer but a "B29 Flying Fortress," and had been caught taking pictures over Latvia. The State Department went to work on another note repeating U.S. demands...
...character largely inspired by much-decorated Major General Frank A. Armstrong Jr., now chief of the Alaskan Air Command, who led the first Flying Fortress daylight assault against the Continent...
Scarcely had the prison doors closed on the last German war criminal to be convicted by the Allies (TIME, Dec. 26) when they opened again for the first batch to be paroled. A few days before Christmas, 54 second-string war criminals were released from Landsberg, the gloomy fortress prison where 25 years ago Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf; their sentences did not expire until next year, but U.S. authorities cut them short for "good behavior...