Word: antwerp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of the London Daily Mail to tell his story. He not only claimed Red Hand credit for all the German cases but others as well, including a dart murder and a knifing in Geneva, a bombing in Rome that injured two children, and ship sinkings in Tangier. Ostend. Antwerp and other harbors. He hinted broadly that the Red Hand was also involved in the still unsolved murders of Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached in 1952 and Algerian Lawyer Ould Aoudia this year...
...knight named Fritz Mayer van den Bergh began collecting art objects. He concentrated on Northern Renaissance examples, amassed some 1,000 pieces of high quality before his death in 1901. To hold the collection as a memorial, his mother founded the Mayer van den Bergh Museum. Tucked away in Antwerp's banking district and unchanged in 55 years, the museum is open every day except Monday in the summertime, and on even-numbered days all winter, charges only 5 francs (10?) admission. Yet the number of visitors annually is under 5,000. Art historians love the place...
Almost nothing is known of Brueghel's life. He became a member of the Antwerp artists' guild in 1551, traveled through Italy the next year. He first supported himself by making sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
...London, Fidel Castro's ambassador said that Trujillo has organized an arms-buying network across Europe, North Africa and the U.S.* Trujillo is believed to have agents and transshippers in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Tunis, London, New York and Rome, negotiating for bazookas, bazooka ammunition, tanks, armored cars, field artillery, shells, even British Vampire jets. He is also said to be recruiting mercenaries, including some from Franco's Spain, who are flown via Bermuda, manifested as farm laborers. Reacting...
After she has studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, her superiors send her to the Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper...