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...Later in the war, in a copy of TIME that reached Japan via neutral Stockholm, Iva first learned of the G.I. nickname "Tokyo Rose"-or so she says...
Many of the ocean-hoppers were making extra inducements to lure even more travelers' dollars. Last week, Scandinavian Airlines announced that its Stockholm-bound passengers could stop over in Glasgow, London or Paris for as long as they liked, at no extra charge. American Overseas Airlines, which is now taking U.S. tourists into Germany for the first time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip...
...Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustaf V turned 91. His traditional birthday fishing party was rained out (the day before he had landed a five-pound pike with no help from anyone); so he celebrated indoors, with a half-bottle of red wine for lunch, and a visit from great-grandson Prince Carl Gustaf, 3, who brought flowers and homemade birthday candles...
Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Ilya Muchets was looking for his destiny in the opposite direction. After grazing a nearby mountain, the 26-year-old pilot crashed his single-engined fighter on the runway at Stockholm's Södertörn Military Airport. He said that he was "just fed up with Russia...
...fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels. Out to please everyone...