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...judges, of course, did not let beauty sway them. Ottawa's pretty, blue-eyed, 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott could skate too. Last week at Davos Platz, Switzerland, against 19 competitors from seven nations, she did her graceful spirals and jumps and double loops, topping it off with a cruncher: the one-foot axel and double salchow...
Beer gardens were going full swing; here & there a brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians...
Silently, seriously, Austria's Parliament met in its badly bombed white building near what was lately called the Adolf Hitler Platz. Representatives of one of the weakest nations in Europe, they nevertheless held their ground while Figl read to them what amounted to a Russian attempt to dictate Austrian legislation. The Parliament had before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement...
...class of 1940: John A. Platz...
...Information. It had been better than his World War I service as an intelligence officer ("Nothing secret about it! Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...