Word: amsterdamers
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Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious disease-the latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples...
Although it is surrounded by water, Manhattan Island has always had water problems. In 1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New York (then called Nieuw Amsterdam) to the British partly because of a shortage of potable water. In 1881 a drought forced New York firemen to learn how to extinguish blazes with dynamite instead of water. In 1949 the city declared a Dry Friday, when residents were asked to stay out of their bathtubs and showers and go unshaven to ease a water shortage. Last week, in the midst of the worst drought they have faced in this century, New Yorkers could...
...Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores, written in the master's hand between 1762 and 1780, were in various states of disrepair. Landon set himself to the task of preparing them for production. Last week the Landon-restored Le Pescatrici (The Fisherwomen) opened at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam to critical acclaim: "A score which swarms with pleasing musical finds"; "Some arias and duets are jewels which nobody other than Haydn could have...
...Beatrix flew off to ski at Gstaad in February. After all, a highly eligible bachelor, Rhenish Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 30, was going to be there too. With him was a minor German diplomat, Claus von Amsberg, 38. "I do not understand," one puzzled newsman soon wired Amsterdam. "This Richard always skis alone, while Beatrix goes out and drinks in nightclubs with this fellow Claus Watsisname." Cabled his impatient editor: "Leave that fellow Claus. He is unimportant, he is a commoner, he is no match...
...Claus 'raus!" Asked Rotterdam's good grey Nieuwe Courant. "Can a German put flowers at our memorials for heroes he fought against?" Amsterdam's Het Parool objected that the future queen's husband "cannot be a man whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls...