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...East is almost as mysterious as the organization of which he writes. Den Doolard, which means The Wanderer, is the pseudonym of C. Spoelstra, 34-year-old Dutch novelist, adventurer, roving editor of an outdoor-sports magazine, now traveling in the Near East. Although his novels are popular in Holland, they have not won the endorsement of intellectual bigwigs, who created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In a brief introduction to Express to the East, den Doolard mentions his months of wandering through Macedonia, "sometimes thirsty and penniless and dirty...
...frequent amazement that his executed works were not, in an everyday sense, always practical." His constructed works have been few in number: a street of modern houses in Paris; an apartment house in Geneva; Salvation Army headquarters in Paris; a number of country houses for rich esthetes in Switzerland, Holland, France, all in the stark, boxlike manner that critics like to call the International Style...
This laboratory inspection tour of tycoons and sub-tycoons was arranged by the National Research Council. Travel expenses were paid by the tourists themselves or their companies. Travel arrangements were managed by American Express Co. Explained Director Maurice Holland of the Council's division of engineering and industrial research...
First of Unofficial Observer's monstrosities is the British Empire, an extraordinary "colossus with feet of brass and a head of clay." With its feet of brass it has "trampled down Spain, Holland, France and Germany." Asks Unofficial Observer: "Who will be next? America? Japan? Russia?" This colossus is deathly ill, "weary in every cell," its clay head aching with the problem of preventing war or disorder in Europe which would immobilize the fleet while "the great duel between the white and the yellow races is fought...
Dancing blithely in the languid Caribbean night, late-reveling passengers on the Holland-America liner Rotterdam fortnight ago felt a slight shock, were mildly alarmed to learn that the 24,000-ton cruise-ship had gone aground on tiny Morant Cays, 40 miles southeast of Jamaica. Speedily assured there was no danger, most of them joined the rest of the 460 passengers in sleep. Next day, with no other incident than one sprained ankle, they and most of the crew were picked up by nearby ships, taken safely to Kingston...