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Since mid-May, 1,000 G.I.s and Germans a day have thronged through an A.M.G.-sponsored art show in Wiesbaden. In paintings gathered from bombed-out German museums (notably Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe...
...Orchestra (TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
...Adolf Hitler spoke his mind to a group of German generals al his secret headquarters. According to a stenographic transcript found last week in the resort town of Wiesbaden, the Führer said...
...253rd Infantry, 63rd Division, who comprise the G.I. version of the old favorite, have done 50 performances to date before some 56,000 troops. The show has appeared in Heidelberg at the world-famed Stadt Theater, in Mannheim at the onetime luxurious UFA Palast, at the Walhalla Theater in Wiesbaden and the Liberty and Montgomery Theaters in Kassel...
Occupational Semantics. Among G.I.s the word "fraternization" had acquired a meaning not included in family dictionaries. "How's fraternizing down your way?" was a standard conversational gambit. Nevertheless, many a soldier understood that the rule went beyond sex. TIME Correspondent Percival Knauth overheard two G.I.s at Wiesbaden discussing the matter in its larger aspects...