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Appointed to take Meyers' classes was an Aryan colleague, once his pupil, Professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa, 47. Professor Cleveringa wrote a speech to deliver to Professor Meyers' next class, read it to his wife. "Excellent," said Mevrouw Cleveringa. "Good," said the professor. "This, then, is the way I will speak. But you'd better pack up my suitcase tonight...
Like Philadelphia's Tycoon Albert C. Barnes (Argyrol), Dutch Tycoon W. H. Müller (copper, steamboats) is one of the world's most eminent collectors of modern paintings. Really assembled by Mevrouw Müller, the Kröller-Müller collection of nearly 1,000 pictures contains 98 of some 700 paintings produced by Vincent van Gogh in his lifetime. They have announced that on their death their collection and their huge estate near The Hague, where it is housed, will be turned over to the public, that a large museum will be built...
...matching pair of portraits by Frans Hals of De Heer and Mevrouw Budolphe, to an anonymous collector...
...mansion where bullets pinged and splintered, last week, was that of socially elect Mynheer and Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Servants rushed in to find him shot dead, and her unconscious from a bullet wound in the head. A single revolver lay smoking on the floor...
Soon Dutch newshawks gave the tragedy world interest by rushing off to scribble that Mevrouw Van Eeghen is the niece of mighty Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of the internationally potent Royal Dutch Shell (Oil) Group. Shrewder newshawks stressed Mevrouw Van Eeghen's unique distinction; she was, last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat...
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