Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the end of August, this writer and two friends converged on a little town between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, pockets stuffed with black-market, Dutch guilders, and hired ourselves a boat. The man who took our money grinned pleasantly and told us we would have much...
...applause that rolled across the lawns from the great wedge-shaped Music Shed at week's end was still not extravagant, but it had warmed up by several degrees. Conductor Koussevitzky had let Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra give the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony last month, even though he had commissioned it. Last week he was prepared to do the symphony justice himself...
Shirley May was looking for glory, perhaps even a Hollywood contract, but last week she was seasick. On the Dutch luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam, eastbound, a steward with a tempting tray knocked at her stateroom door. "Come back later, much later," moaned Shirley May. "How I wish I could get off this ship and swim the rest...
Eighteen months ago, when the Union government launched the African show on the world tour which has already taken it to London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Ottawa, Sekoto had already left Johannesburg and was in Paris. There he hoped to get a look at the works of the great European masters he revered, learn more about his craft...
...NKVD, he discovered, knew every detail of his personal and military history. They even showed him photographs of himself "at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam and at the international horseshow in Nice"-snapshots which he had never known existed. "We have such a file for every military and political personage in the whole world," said the proud interrogator...