Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the airlines and the ship companies are offering reduced rates for student travel. As of May 1, the new transatlantic coach service will be put into operation. Round-trip fares are scheduled for; New York-London, $486; Amsterdam, $522; Copenhagen, $563.60; Paris, $522; Zurich, $563.60. Sponsors include almost every major line. Take your pick from Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, BOAC, Scandinavian Airways System, PAA, and T.W.A...
...years, public-spirited citizens in The Netherlands have been pitching in guilders to the Prince Bernhard Fund so that promising Dutch artists can broaden their vision and sharpen their palettes by foreign travel. Last week, in Amsterdam's municipal museum, the travelers exhibited their new work. The general verdict of deeply disappointed Dutch critics: the money was wasted...
Summary judgment of Amsterdam's Het Parool: there was no sign that any of the eight traveling artists broadened his work. "One half could just as well -and the other half better-have stayed at home...
...Netherlands, sport fans know Johannes Hendrikus Urbanus as well as Americans know Urbanus' hero, Bob Feller. Like Feller, 24-year-old Urbanus is a pitcher. He plays on Amsterdam's Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (Perseverance Leads to Victory) team. The O.V.V.O. nine, behind Urbanus' consistent pitching, has won three straight Dutch championships. Last week "Hannie" was the envy of some 5,000 Dutch Honkbal players. At the invitation of the Knickerbocker, a Dutch-American magazine, Hannie flew to the U.S. to spend a month of spring training with the New York Giants, National League champions...
Hannie is modest about his chances of making the grade in U.S. baseball: "I don't know if I would accept an offer, because I know I wouldn't get one." He will be happy "just to learn," then go back to Amsterdam, where his brother Charles, an O.V.V.O. shortstop, vill take care of a good percentage of the batters that Hannie does not strike out. Charles is O.V.V.O.'s relief pitcher, but the title is strictly honorary. In 150 games over eight years, Hannie has never yet been relieved...