Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insured for $500,000, the masterpiece had made the trip from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to be part of the most impressive Rembrandt show to be held in the U.S. in more than 15 years. It had taken officials of Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery more than a year to organize the show; it was that hard to dislodge Rembrandts from their home museums...
...TIME called the Boston symphony-except for Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony-"the U.S.'s finest and one of the top four in the world. The others: Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Amsterdam's Royal Palace one morning last week, 335 frock-coated Dutch and Indonesian officials gathered around a green baize table to hear Juliana, Queen of The Netherlands, end 340 years of Dutch rule in Indonesia. Juliana entered the palace hall followed by her husband, Prince Bernhard. From her crimson-upholstered armchair, she spoke clearly and melodiously: "Immeasurable," said she, "is the satisfaction of a nation that finds its liberty realized . . ." As Juliana finished, the palace carillon pealed out first the Indonesian and then the Dutch anthem, and one of her four uniformed lackeys fell flat on his face...