Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail is pouring in from eager baldheads abroad that van Rooijen's wife has started a stamp collection. The barber already has seven girls helping him in the shop at Een. Later this month he plans to branch out; his son will open a ten-chair shop in Amsterdam...
Unchristian Idea. McIntire seldom misses an opportunity to embarrass and harass his opponent. A few days before the Assembly of the World Council of Churches met at Amsterdam last August, McIntire was in Amsterdam holding his own meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...
...Amsterdam's gaudy Rembrandt-plein, a money dealer known as "Kees de Dollarkoning" (Kees the Dollar King) had resorted to hawking leather wallets as a sideline. He used to get six guilders to the dollar, now offers to buy them...
...Vanderbilt University in 1917. Today he is an Anglican priest. He is well known in China as theologian and poet. When the Japanese jailed him in wartime for six months of solitary confinement and semi-starvation, he is said to have composed a new poem each day. At Amsterdam last summer he was elected one of the six presidents of the World Council of Churches...
...Appointment Only. A big buyer of African stones, Winston now mines diamonds in Venezuela, employs 400 cutters and polishers in Amsterdam, New York City and Puerto Rico, grosses $20 million a year. In his Manhattan showrooms, browsing is not encouraged; jewels are usually shown only by appointment. The average sale: $5,000. Winston also turns out engagement rings which Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sells for as little as $37.50, and makes jewels for some 750 U.S. retail stores. Winston keeps track of every gem in his store at all times. If a single stone is mislaid, no one leaves...