Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that it would forthwith equip all its planes with portable altars (including altar stone, crucifix, chalice, missal, altar cloths and a gold and purple chasuble). The innovation, said airline officials, was the result of numerous requests from air traveling priests...
Other would-be Pagliacci jumped at the idea. Minerva Pious, weary of Pansy Nussbaum, was a creditable Lady Macbeth. Ezra Stone, still unhappily and profitably playing Henry Aldrich at 30, would try Shylock. Jack Pearl would try King Lear; Morey Amsterdam was set to do Cyrano. Henry Morgan agreed to do a show, but couldn't decide on a role: "Anything but Shakespeare . . . I told them to get me something where a guy goes crazy. With a little nudge I can go out of my mind quite easily...
Died. Hans van Meegeren, 58, master forger of old masters; of a heart ailment; in Amsterdam. Painter Van Meegeren set out to even scores with hostile art critics by showing them up as incompetents, produced such a persuasive "Vermeer" that critics acclaimed it as Vermeer's masterpiece. In 1945, charged with collaboration for having sold Hermann Göring a Vermeer, Dutchman Van Meegeren saved his neck by declaring himself a faker, proved it by painting another "Vermeer" in his prison cell...
...little village of Putte, where he crossed the border, villagers crowded around his car, gave him a silver plate engraved with the names of twelve Canadian soldiers who had died there. The University of Amsterdam gave him another honorary doctorate. He was a guest of Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana and Prince Consort Bernhard at Soestdyk Palace. The Netherlands' Parliament eulogized him as "the grand old man of Canada." Everywhere he went, children and grownups came out of their houses to wave and cheer...
...Meegeren was less pleased when D. A. Hoogendijk, a trusted Amsterdam dealer, who had sold two of the forgeries, testified sadly: "Now that I look around this courtroom and see all these paintings together, I don't understand how I could ever have believed them to be Vermeers...