Word: soestdijk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's most original graphic artists, and an extremely skilled one, but his talent has not brought him much fame. At 52, he lives a pinched life with his family in the town of Baarn (pop. 15,000), two miles from Queen Juliana's Soestdijk Palace. He works hunched over a table by an upstairs window, making woodcuts and lithographs that sell badly. Escher seldom has a chance to show his prints, but last week the Baarn High School had 30 of them on display...
...Copenhagen airport, junketing Eleanor Roosevelt was greeted by U.S. Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General...