Word: haarlem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings, valued at $50,000, included "A Portrait of a Standing Young Man Holding a Pen," by Cornelius Van Haarlem, worth $30,000. They were stolen from the home of Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts...
...editors conscientiously began to work on a one-volume supplement, which was published in 1933. Now they are beavering away on a four-part, 50,000-entry supplement to the supplement, and they have just come out with Volume II, which takes the ever-changing language from H for "Haarlem" (a blue pigment containing alumina) through N for "Nzima" (an African language spoken in Ghana...
Earlier Graham feature films were generally fictional sagas of personal conversion, complete with an inserted sermon delivered by Billy. By contrast, The Hiding Place is the true story of two pious Dutch Protestant spinsters who hid Jews from the Nazis in their Haarlem home during World War II, and were imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp as a result. The film is drawn from a fast-selling 1971 autobiography of the same title by Corrie ten Boom, one of the sisters. Now 83, she is currently on a speaking tour of the U.S. and Canada...
...film, an accomplished but little-known Houston actress, Jeannette Clift, plays Corrie, Harris portrays her sister Betsie ten Boom and Heckart a prison trusty. The film was shot last year on location in Haarlem and at an unused army camp in England, which was turned into the hell of Ravensbrück, the women's camp where 96,000 lost their lives...
...Word. Verkade wanted to be a commercial artist in advertising, but failed the entrance exam at Amsterdam's Rietveld art academy. After a brief fling with abstract painting, he turned to figurative sculpture at the Royal Academy in The Hague, then started out in a tiny studio near Haarlem. One day last summer, Photographer David Douglas Duncan saw Verkade's bronzes, was impressed, bought some and began telling collector friends about his discovery. Word spread quickly. During one three-week period, Verkade received orders from America for nearly 40 statues...