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Even if they cannot see Picasso now, the G.I.s in Paris can and do buy prints of his pictures. A Quai Saint Michel shopkeeper said that he sold American soldiers from one to six Picasso prints a day. (Next in order of popularity: Matisse, Gauguin, Bonnard, Goya, Toulouse-Lautrec.) "I am surprised," he said. "They know a lot about painting, just as much as the Germans, if not more." The prints and etchings range from 300 ($6) to 5,000 francs ($100), and the average G.I. collector spends...
...Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michel, Prince of Bavaria, scion of the Wittelsbachs and the Stuarts (a few British Jacobites still regard the Wittelsbach line as Britain's rightful sovereigns). He was taken by U.S. troops in a Bavarian hunting lodge. His father, former Crown Prince Rupprecht, Field Marshal in Kaiser Wilhelm's armies, was taken by the Allies in Italy...
...Mont-Saint-Michel, rock-ribbed island abbey founded in the 8th Century, intact...
...Allied Military Government court in Belgium last week two German civilians stood face to face with death. Robert Michel Hogen, 47, and Karl Packbier, 37, had harbored three German soldiers and an officer on Herr Hogen's farm, near the German town of Horbach. They had fed them and given them civilian clothes. Theirs was a capital offense...
...swept past Mont-Saint-Michel last week, but some enraptured U.S. troops stopped to stare. A half century ago another U.S. visitor, Henry Adams, saw the same towering, church-crowned rock in the sea off Avranches, felt the same compulsion. Wrote he in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...