Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, who won 3.35% of the votes in the last prewar election (1937), got 10.57% last week. In Amsterdam, 30% of the vote was Communist...
...Beer & Bicycles. Confidence in Holland's future pervades the moist spring air. The Royal Dutch Airlines is resuming biweekly flights to New York in a few weeks. Trains between Amsterdam and The Hague, which last year took seven hours to make a trip, are back on their old schedules and running every hour. The famed Heineken Brewery at Amsterdam is opening again. Philips, Europe's greatest exporters of electric bulbs and radio equipment, is operating at 60% of capacity, expects to hit 100% soon. The Dutch, who use bicycles as Americans use autos, may have to wait until...
Last week Mahler's widow, now living in Beverly Hills, Calif., published a biography of her husband (Gustav Mahler, Memories and Letters; Viking, $5). She first wrote her book seven years ago, published it in Amsterdam in 1940. Shortly afterwards she escaped to the U.S. with her third husband, Austrian Novelist Franz (Song of Bernadette) Werfelt† whom she met in 1917 when he was in the Czech army, married in 1918. Like many another Mahler partisan, Alma Mahler admitted that she wasn't always able to understand Mahler's music...
...conducted by Viennese alumni like Bruno Walter, who is most responsible for Mahler's U.S. popularity. He has played Mahler every season for 23 years. Said he last week: "[Mahler] is gradually coming into his own in American life. In the fall I will go to London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Zurich and I will play Mahler. I will go on with Mahler as long as God will permit...
Driven from Germany in 1937 (Hitler felt that both his art and his theories were "degenerate"), Beckmann pursued his invisible, immutable Ego to Holland, spent the war years stalking it around the vast, onetime tobacco storeroom which is his Amsterdam studio...