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...Widen had no need to fear on that December day in 1942. The Nazi pilot did not harm him, instead set down his 109 and went over to meet Widen, who had landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them...
...Malmstrom A.F.B. in Great Falls, Mont., leafed through his diary to stir that 18-year-old memory. The leafing was prompted by the news of a strange sequel. From a West German soldier named Alfons Hafner came word of a promise that he had made to his brother Toni before the ace died during the war: Alfons would find the American pilot and give him some remembrance of that brief encounter in Tunisia. Ace Toni did not know the American's name but had passed along a photo to Alfons. Alfons, in turn, passed it along to West German...
Leader of the group was a German named Toni Hiebeler, 32. editor of an obscure Alpinist magazine in Munich called the Mountain Companion. Hiebeler was driven to conquer der Eiger by the Alpinist's special lust for revenge: his best friend had crashed to his death on the north wall...
...didn't say much," said Alpinist Toni Hiebeler later. "We just stood still for five minutes after we made it, shaking hands and saying 'thanks' to each other...
This One Is the Toni (Toni Carroll; M-G-M LP). Songstress Carroll, billed as a onetime Miss Missouri, belongs to the whisper-from-the-navel school. Her incendiary reading of such ballads as I'm in the Mood for Love and I Only Have Eyes for You will bump the pulse, the album guarantees, "of any red-blooded American man." Toni's signature song (Call Toni) sets the pitch: "I'm all yours and ready to do/ Anything you want me to/ Just dial TONI oh-five-six-eight-three...