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Sidearm. In Antwerp, Belgium, Soldier Hendrik Verheyen was court-martialed and sentenced to 13 months in prison for stealing his unit's cannon...
...seen for himself what all the facts are. When he left for a quick tour of G.M.'s European plants six weeks ago, his plans were to spend $172 million expanding plants in England and Germany. But in Belgium, while touring G.M.'s assembly plant at Antwerp, Curtice was told that $6,000,000 was needed for more space and equipment. There had been no plan to expand in Belgium, but Curtice, in typical fashion, agreed to appropriate the money. The Swiss assembly plant, he learned, needed $3,500,000. Go right ahead, said Curtice, the money will...
...Genoese of the 18th century." Back it went to the storeroom. Recently, the experts took counsel all over again and decided to have it cleaned. Revealed in the cleaning process: the date 1620 and the apparently authentic signature of Anthony Van Dyck, who went to Genoa from his native Antwerp at just about that time...
Soon afterward, assuring his people that the World Bank's Black would pay them a cool 10% on all loans, the President pocketed the money and slipped off to Antwerp to buy a $60,000 yacht. Re-christened the President Robert, the vessel was stocked with 1,068 bottles of vintage liquors, some 200,000 cigarettes, a supply of fine cigars and other necessities for gracious living on a long voyage. Then, on July 18, 1951, loaded with its complement of happy internationalists, each equipped with passport and currency bearing the signature of President Robert, it set sail, ostensibly...
...Father Kelly, also an expert oarsman, won the Olympic singles in Antwerp in 1920; son John, a champion like his father, took first prize twice (in 1947 and 1949) in the famed Diamond Sculls at Henley, England...