Word: antwerp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though her tale is tangled, the plot of the story is simple enough. Two girlhood friends. Marta and Pauline, not yet apparently fat but obviously fortyish, have for-gathered in Paris. Russ, an old pal, a U. S. businessman stationed in Antwerp, squires them through Belgium, hopes to join them for a few days in England. But business keeps him in Antwerp till Pauline's boat has sailed, so he keeps the date with Marta alone. They have a mildly amorous affair, with no strings attached, and part, perhaps forever. All the time, however, they are really in love...
...Antwerp last week Belgian art critics had a chance to judge the work of Queen Elisabeth, a portrait of her daughter Princess Marie José, wife of Italy's Crown Prince...
...shyness. He speaks English with a slight accent that sounds Irish rather than Dutch. Van Loon arrived in the U. S. at 21, was graduated from Cornell (1905), became successively newshawk, Ph.D., lecturer. A. P. correspondent in Belgium at the beginning of the War, he saw the siege of Antwerp, was nearly caught by the advancing German army. Nearly caught by poverty after the War, he tricked it by writing his first popular history, Ancient Man. Other books: The Story of Mankind, The Story of the Bible...
More amazing than the prowess of the U. S. girl swimmers was the performance of several youths representing Japan. They far outclassed the U. S., whose men swimmers have won most of the events in previous Olympics. The first Japanese Olympic swimmers, competing at Antwerp in 1920, were peculiarly inept. They used an antiquated sidestroke and were anxious to learn how to do the crawl. Most Japanese athletes, other than swimmers, in the current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake...
...issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...