Word: nieuws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirley May was looking for glory, perhaps even a Hollywood contract, but last week she was seasick. On the Dutch luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam, eastbound, a steward with a tempting tray knocked at her stateroom door. "Come back later, much later," moaned Shirley May. "How I wish I could get off this ship and swim the rest...
...Nieuw Amsterdam nudged its way slowly through New York Harbor, and 74-year-old Dr. Albert Schweitzer faced the crouching semicircle around him like an indulgent grandfather playing a strange new game with the children. Though he refused to use English, he soon caught on to the rules. When they asked his interpreter to get him to pose against the rail with the city sky line behind him, Albert Schweitzer briskly nodded his grizzled head and grinned. "New York et moil" he said...
Into New York harbor last week steamed the refurbished 36,667-ton Nieuw Amsterdam, flagship of the Holland-America Line and faithful troopship through World War II. The Nieuw Amsterdam was the 30th big liner to go into transatlantic passenger service since the war. The liners include eight U.S. Maritime Commission ships converted from troop transports to temporary peacetime service. The others...
Some 3,000 civilians sailed from Manhattan for Europe last week. The Cunard White Star Line's Queen Mary took out 1,228; the graceful old Aquitania (probably the only four-stacker remaining afloat) carried 483; the Holland-America Line's Nieuw Amsterdam had 500 aboard...
Died. First Lieut. Augustus Van Cortlandt III, 22, only son of Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...