Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony, with, its virtuosity and its rakish unpredictability, is the matinee idol in danger of growing a paunch. The Boston Symphony, with its exquisite balances and flawless inflections, is the American whose manner shows that he was raised by a French governess. The Amsterdam Concertgebouw, with its mellow strings and faintly ponderous sonority, is the sexagenarian with all his hair and a twinkle in his eye. Last week the U.S. got a chance to hear still another famed symphonic character, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, only ten years old. Its personality: blazing prodigy...
...Chicago the fire-breathing, 50-year-old weekly Defender has lost 10,000 local readers in the past three years, is down to 49,000 in a city of 700,000 Negroes. Its national edition has dropped to 37,000, about half its 1952 circulation. New York's Amsterdam News has dropped more than 25,000 from its 1947 peak of 62,770. The weekly Afro-American, which publishes 13 local and regional editions, including twice-weekly editions in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., has dropped from 230,000 to 188,000 in national circulation since World...
When the Nazis began rounding up the Jews in Amsterdam, Salesman Elias Beekman and his wife, Sara, slipped their 2½-year-old Anna into the underground just in time. Arrested on June 20, 1943, the parents were gassed to death in a concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland on July...
...whirled up around Anneke, as it had around the Finaly boys in France. But in that case (TIME, July 6, 1953) the Roman Catholic hierarchy had helped in getting the Finaly brothers back; it was not so in Holland. Archbishop Bernard Alfrink refused to intervene. Proclaimed the leaders of Amsterdam's Jewish congregations: "Though only a single child is concerned, this case is a measuring rodi for civilization and freedom...
...wave of bitterness swept The Netherlands. Last year Geertruida Van Moorst was sentenced to a year in jail (six months of it suspended) for helping hide the abducted Betty. Last month Geertruida and her sister Elizabeth (in absentia) and four others were brought to trial in Amsterdam for kidnaping...