Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crosses are usually associated with bishops, but U.S. Lutheranism has no bishops, the result of immigrant prejudice against the aristocratic traditions in the old world. In Fry's United Lutheran Church crosses are sometimes worn as a symbol of supervisory office. * Dutch Lutherans came first to America (New Amsterdam) in 1623. In 1638 Swedish Lutherans established a colony in Delaware. By mid-18th century Lutheranism was firmly established, mostly by Germans, along the eastern seaboard. Patriarch of Lutheranism in the U.S. was the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organizer and theologian, who in 1748 formed the first Lutheran Synod...
...billion. American Express reports 660,000 Americans will visit Europe alone-10% more than in 1957-and hotel bookings are running as much as 50% ahead. Paris expects 420,000 dollar-laden American visitors, Brussels 400,000 (thanks to world's fair), Rome 313,300, London 300,000, Amsterdam and Madrid 210,000 each...
...rare get-together for the public record, The Netherlands' royal family posed in Amsterdam for an informal portrait showing Prince Bernhard soundly outnumbered in the female palace. Then Princess Beatrix, 20, oldest daughter...
...diary of 15-year-old Anne Frank ended abruptly when the Nazis broke into her family's hiding place in Amsterdam. What happened next? Of the last days of one of the world's best-known modern heroines, little was known except that she had died, like millions of other Jews, in a German concentration camp. To fill out the chronicle of her short life, West German Publisher S. Fischer last year assigned Author Ernst Schnabel to search the German and Dutch archives and interview survivors of the camps who might have known her. In Paris Le Figaro...
Author Presser, 58, himself a Jew and a professor of history at Amsterdam University, lost his first wife in an extermination camp, lived in hiding in Holland until war's end. What he has written is not a horror novel, despite its horrible theme. It is, rather, a deeply moving story of the terror that lies beyond remorse for the man who fails himself by failing others...