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...summoned to Berchtesgaden ex-Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich. Swarthy, ambitious Dragisha Cvetkovich had visited Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1941, then had allied Yugoslavia with the Axis. A popular revolt had repudiated him. After his country's defeat, he had lived privately and well at a Czech spa. Now, perhaps, he would serve as the most likely Yugoslav quisling...
After Pearl Harbor, Bob Best was interned with other U.S. newsmen at Germany's Bad Nauheim Spa. He displayed no animosity toward the U.S. there, but he did get special privileges (he slept in a hotel while other correspondents were confined in a train on a siding; he gained weight while others lost from...
...Germany. Pierre Laval had been able to recruit a mere 18,000, including many unskilled French Arabs. Laval was hurt by his German bosses' lack of consideration. By way of characteristically weak-chinned protest he called Vichy's Paris agent, Fernand de Brinon, back to the unhappy spa...
...foreign correspondents, stayed too long in Europe. Unless you came home sometimes you began to go European. Best never came home, even for a brief vacation." TIME merely said that Best was a South Carolinian. Said he in his biography written for the internees' paper at Bad Nauheim Spa: "Born Sumter, S.C., 4/16/ 96; Wofford College (Spartanburg), B.A. '16 . . . Abroad since...
Dead Birds. Even so, the list of dead pigeons already includes such famous summer theaters as the Lakewood at Skowhegan, Me. (the oldest in the East, having run continuously for 41 years); the Spa at Saratoga Springs; the South Shore Players at Cohasset, Mass.; the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Mass.; The Lost Colony pageant at Roanoke Island, N.C. (which played to almost 500,000 people in five years) ; the annual Play Festival at Central City, Colo...