Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of the square was a flower-covered casket, in it the body of "John X," a G.I. fallen in defense of Belgium (he was not an unknown soldier; for this occasion one body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport...
...Voice of the Turtle" was a love story, a good simple play; "The Mermaids Sing" was a love story with complications; but in his newest achievement, John Van Druten has allowed the complications to overpower the story, and the result is not a good play. He is still just as good a technician as ever, and "The Druid Circle" moves forward with an oiled speed that is sure to keep you awake and lively for the full two and a half hours. Though threadss are dropped aimlessly all over the last two acts, they are line, colored, interesting threads, spun...
...Van Druten's first mistake was in trying to write a problem play. His most successful theme, romance, is subordinated to the handy role of a device to keep things moving, while the problem, modern education, pops in and out of the play, and is never resolved or even treated in concrete dramatic terms. Through the irrelevancies and the scenes of simpering young love, the main theme had difficulty holding its own. An aging professor, envious of the love shared by two of his students, tries desperately to come by it vicariously, gloats over one of their captured love letters...
...Trieste, once more in the world of free men, the three released Americans, Lieut. William Van Atten, Pfc. Glen A. Meyer and Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick Jr., told their story of five days in the Yugoslav shadows...
Said Lieut. Van Atten: "The most surprising thing about the whole incident was the extreme belligerency of the Yugoslavs in seizing us and then the contrasting careful way they treated us before our release. Boy! They really handled us with kid gloves during our detention...