Word: amsterdamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dawn. The night before, KLM Flight 607E, a two-month-old Super Constellation en route from Amsterdam to New York, had put down at Shannon Airport, and its passengers had trooped into the lounges and duty-free shops to sip Irish coffee, have a last buying spree, scribble a few final postcards. On board the economy flight when it took to the air again were its crew of eight and 91 passengers, including three babies in arms, a honeymoon couple, 13 members of the Church of the Brethren from Lancaster County, Pa., three Polish immigrants to the U.S., an Israeli...
...sense of the report," summed up Amsterdam's Roman Catholic daily De Tijd, "comes down to this . . . The great design which was proclaimed like a trumpet call throughout The Netherlands-to make the Papuans ripe for independent activity in all fields-remains a slogan...
This quietly compelling first novel by 36-year-old. Amsterdam-born Hans Koningsberger does what life has been known to do: it mismatches a man and a woman. Toni and Catherine are not meant for each other, but owing to the chemistry of passion, smoke gets in their eyes. Temperamentally, the pair usurp each other's sex roles. Toni is sensitive, day-dreamy, putty-willed. An internee, he longs to escape to Britain, but rarely makes a real move to get there. Swiss Catherine is the fully emancipated "New Woman" who was born in the inkwells of Ibsen...
...next season with 17 major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minneapolis Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Symphony. Estimated gross income next season: up to $150,000. He hopes to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Brussels Fair and again in Amsterdam, and with the London Philharmonic in Britain. He would like to devote more time to composition; so far he has written only two sentimental piano pieces, Nostalgia and The Void, but he is working on a piano concerto. In the fall he would like to return to Russia with his mother...
...collections of a 19th century U.S. railroad tycoon, a Social Registered Manhattan spinster of Nieuw Amsterdam lineage, and a young Ivy League yarn manufacturer are on display this week in Minneapolis and Manhattan-and they add up a high score for continuous good taste ranging back over 75 years. The lesson seems to be: "If you buy what you like, you are probably right...