Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VERTICAL-TAKE-OFF planes, which rise and land with rotors but cruise with propellers, are expected to go into service in Europe by 1962. British European Airways intends to buy six VTOLs from Britain's Fairey Aviation Co., fly them to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam...
Died. Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt Gerry, 85, widow of Rhode Island's longtime Democratic Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, onetime wife of George Washington Vanderbilt, direct descendant of Nieuw Amsterdam's Peter Stuyvesant; after long illness; in Providence...
...former president of the Swiss Violin Dealers Association. Werro hastily repurchased five violins and a cello from angry customers for a total of about $60,000 before he was brought to trial on 20-odd charges of forgery of names and labels. The top violin traders in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York, who have for years passed on the authenticity of old violins, almost unanimously supported Werro. Seventy-year-old Albert Phillips-Hill of London's sacrosanct W.E. Hill & Sons, and himself known in the trade as "The Pope," called the work of Iviglia's bureau...
...Born in Amsterdam in 1910, Lionni was raised in Genoa and Milan, where he rubbed shoulders with the futurists, was "adopted" by the futurists' spokesman, Benedetto Marinetti, who ebulliently proclaimed him at 18 "a great aeropainter." Even then Lionni had a taste for variety. He exhibited his oils and wrote movie reviews while he was getting a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Genoa (1935). He came to the U.S. in 1939, almost immediately established himself as a fresh new talent in U.S. design...
Keep Talking (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Everybody runs the four-minute mile in the speediest, funniest TV parlor game of them all; with Joey Bishop, Paul Winchell, Pat Carroll v. Morey Amsterdam, Danny Dayton, Nina Foch...