Word: berghe
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...month, when a splashy advertising campaign urged Dutchmen to "taste the improvement" in their favorite spread, thousands of housewives obediently followed directions. Most of them agreed that there was indeed something different about the new version of their old friend Planta, the good-eating margarine made by Van den Bergh's & Jurgens' N.V., a subsidiary of the vast Dutch-British Unilever combine. In no time at all, the new Planta* was outselling the old, "unimproved" Planta, which had previously accounted for an estimated 13% of The Netherlands' margarine production...
ALMOST a century ago a Belgian 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...
...hours. When The Spirit of St. Louis hopped the Atlantic nonstop from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927, the Age of Flight finally came of age. Nowadays, when any weekday finds hundreds of passengers casually making the trans atlantic crossing, the drama is gone. Lind bergh's great and simple epic was that he was the first to fly the Atlantic alone, the first to fly without stop from the U.S. to Europe...
...handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...
...life as the living city, and many of them come very close to it. James Stewart manages to mug a little now & then, but by & large his performance is exceptionally modest, and as good as his best. The Polish actress, Kasia Orzazewski, and the Dutch actress, Joanne de Bergh (as Conte's ex-wife), do particularly well in minor roles. Radio Actress Betty Garde is hair-raising in her biggest scene; and Jane Crowley makes her bit as a middle-aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss...