Word: hollander
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James Magee, who is publisher of the weekly Bordentown Register, learned from the letters from Holland that the Van Der Tuyns' fondest hope was to go to America and settle down there. He encouraged them, and the Dutch family studied diligently, soon began to write him in clumsy English...
...life. When they land at Hoboken this week, James Magee will be at dockside to welcome them. As their sponsor, he has promised to provide shelter for the Van Der Tuyns and their six apple-cheeked children, to help father Van Der Tuyn get a job. Back in Holland, Pfc. Magee's grave will not be forgotten: Madame Van Der Tuyn's sister has promised to care...
...mournful tolling of churchbells and the scream of sirens awakened Netherlanders at 4 a.m.; it was already too late. Waves chewed like bulldozers at the historic dikes of Holland, breaking through in at least 70 places, to reclaim what centuries of Dutch ingenuity had taken from the sea. It was perhaps the worst Dutch disaster since St. Elizabeth's Flood in the Middle Ages, in which thousands lost their lives. In the Frisian Islands to the north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured...
...Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France in World War II. Made his second combat jump with the 101st when it invaded Holland, where Taylor was wounded. Was back in Washington on a special mission when his 101st was surrounded at Bastogne. Flew back to Europe, then jeeped into Bastogne in time to lead the division through the last month of the Battle of the Bulge, but too late to receive the Nazi surrender ultimatum...
Driver Fitch (with Relief Drivers Peter Collins and John Cutts, both Britons) took off from Monte Carlo itself in his Sunbeam-Talbot, spun over his prescribed route through Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, and up & over the Maritime Alps of France. Crossing the finish line without a single penalty, Fitch was one of the prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock...