Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Dutch summer courses include "Science and the Christian Life" in early September given by the Free University of Amsterdam, "Trends in Modern Civilization" in mid-July at the University of Delft, and "Dutch Art of the 17th to 19th centuries" also in July at the Hague Institute for Art History...
...enthusiasm of Europeans for American jazz was almost too much for Bandleader Lionel Hampton. Trouble struck during his midnight concert last week in Amsterdam's revered Concertgebouw. TIME Correspondent Israel Schenker cabled this communiqu...
...play it about twelve times in one night. There's a big epidemic going on over here for our jazz. They go for our heavy beat. It's just an epidemic. You can't explain it. Every night it's the same thing. Of course Amsterdam was the only place I got arrested...
...proud of the decoration that for days afterward, whenever he spotted an acquaintance, he would insist on showing off his medal, exclaiming delightedly: "Look what I've got!" In addition to decorations from France, Norway, The Netherlands and Belgium, Reed was honored recently by the Five Flies, an Amsterdam restaurant, which installed a copper plaque in one of its chairs boasting that Ralph Reed once sat there...
Through hypnotism he learned that Ruth Simmons (1923- ) of Pueblo, Colorado was, in her previous life, Bridey Murphy (1798-1864) of Cork, Ireland. Before that she had died while still a baby in New Amsterdam--the thing has endless possibilities! After his hypnotic sessions with Miss Simmons, Bernstein was persuaded to write it all up. He has not done badly by the enterprise; in seven weeks The Search for Bridey Murphy has climbed to the top of The New York Times booklist...