Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Bernhard and his Queen made a public appearance in Amsterdam. They were there to introduce their eldest daughter and heir presumptive, pretty Princess Beatrix, to the city fathers of Amsterdam as their nation's future Queen. She came of age to rule (18) six months ago. "I shall prepare myself for the task which I hope and trust lies before me in a yet far-distant future," Beatrix had promised when she became an official member of the State Council. In most kingdoms monarchs reign until their deaths, but in The Netherlands retirement in favor...
...Couple had been the central attraction of a park show of modern statues. Discovering that it was gone, six Amsterdam sculptors, whose works were also included in the show, called a protest meeting. The meeting soon adjourned to the park itself, where the sculptors helped one another remove their own six works...
What were the two intertwined figures doing on the park grass in the heart of Amsterdam? Burgomaster Arnold D'Ailly bustled up for a close look last week, and turned a fiery red. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz had called his big, blocky, semi-abstract bronze The Couple, and it was all too clearly a labor of love. The burgomaster ordered the sculpture removed that very night to the museum cellar from which it was borrowed...
...will sing at the Holland festival June 17, Amsterdam, 19; Heerlen, 20; Brussels, 22; Tours, 23; Orleans, 24; Paris, 26; Florence, 28; Siena...
...Stuttgart, U.S. Mezzo-Soprano Grace Hoffman was asked to sing Amneris in Aïda, despite the fact that she had to sing in Italian while the rest of the cast sang in German. She wowed the crowd. In Amsterdam, U.S. Coloratura Soprano Marilyn Tyler accepted a rush call to sing Violetta in La Traviata, although she sang in unpopular German while the rest of the cast sang in Italian. After the first act, a year's contract was offered to her. In Munich, U.S. Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over...