Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston the Museum of Fine Arts announced its new double acquisition, matching portraits of the Rev. Johannes Elison and his wife, Maria Bockenolle, of Norwich, England, painted in 1634 during Rembrandt's early years as a successful portrait painter in Amsterdam. Boston Museum trustees used up the whole of their five-year-old William K. Richardson fund to pay for the pair of life-sized portraits, largest single purchase in the museum's 80-year-old history. The price: just under...
...hand went to the base of her lovely white throat; her brilliant eyes burned, a promise to Rémi, a beckoning. He bowed, smiling." Within ten pages they are busily engaged in rumpling the sofa of Rémi's bachelor flat while Jardinier is bound for Amsterdam in his carriage with only a Russian Grand Duchess to tousle...
...uneasy. How would German audiences react to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Broadway hit, The Diary of Anne Frank? What would they feel about the nerve-rasping true story of the teen-age Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two wartime years in a cramped attic in German-occupied Amsterdam, was finally captured and killed in a concentration camp? When Germans at war's end saw actual movies of concentration camp horrors, they greeted the films with skepticism and derision. Would they jeer Anne Frank off the stage? One night last week, in a mass premiere, the curtains...
Dieters may be hard to live with, but they must be coddled. Compliments and praise for anybody who is dieting to lose weight are an important factor in the success of the campaign, Dr. Janns Groen of Amsterdam told a dietetics meeting in Rome. He cited the case of a woman who slimmed down from 255 to 169 lbs. with the help of praise and attention while in hospital, but ballooned back to 230 after her friends outside took her hard-won achievement too much for granted...
Journalist Janson conceived Picto in 1938 but did not put it on public display until last fall, when it proved a hit at an inventors' exposition in Amsterdam. Since then, he has published a complete Picto course in his native Dutch (he plans courses in other languages) and has put 100 students through a first Picto correspondence course. Last week the first Dutch-Picto dictionary (2,000 Dutch words) was at the printer's in Amsterdam...