Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...READ WITH INTEREST ARTICLE IN TIME DEC. 23 ABOUT INDONESIA. WHILE APPRECIATING ELABORATE INFORMATION IT GIVES I FEEL BOUND FOR SAKE OF FAIRNESS . . . TO POINT OUT [A STATEMENT] NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FACTS. YOU STATE THATGOVERNOR GENERAL VAN STARKENBORGH STACHOUWER FLED TO AUSTRALIA WHEREAS UPON HIS PROPOSAL HE AND HIS FAMILY AS WELL AS 15,000 OTHER DUTCH OFFICIALS IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN JAPANESE INVASION REMAINED AT THEIR POSTS, WERE TAKEN PRISONERS BY THE JAPANESE AND SUFFERED ALL CRUELTIES AND INDIGNITIES OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT. GOVERNOR GENERAL STARKENBORGH HIMSELF SHARED CAPTIVITY AND HUMILIATION IN SAME CAMP WITH GENERAL WAINWRIGHT...
...Your gossipy footnote on Tjarda [van Starkenborgh] and his driver, on his visit to Queen Wilhelmina, which seemed to substantiate your error and TIME'S implication-that because of Tjarda's "flight" he had incurred the wrath of the Queen-creates a further erroneous impression. Tjarda was rewarded for his war services with one of the most important appointments in The Netherlands Kingdom, the post of Ambassador to France...
...some people's nomination for All American. The Quakers also have whipped Yale's struggling forces, which seems to have little besides center Tony Lavelli to offer. Princeton has two standout performers back in George Lawry, who led the league in field goals in 1942-43, and Butch Van Breda Kolff. They handed a twenty-point defeat to Rutgers, which in turn Handed Columbia a three-point beating. The Tigers also absorbed a horrendous drubbing at the hands of Seton Hall, but the Setonians have won eleven straight games, and may rank with the nation's best. Followers...
Some 25 of the pleasanter personalities M-G-M owns or could snag for the occasion are on hand, and they go through about two dozen of Kern's graceful, contagious tunes, neck-deep in sumptuous production. Van Johnson does a highly self-appreciative song& -dance-looking, unfortunately, a little as if he should be carrying a roast apple in his mouth. Judy Garland is charming as the late Marilyn Miller and still more charming when she sings Who? Dinah Shore gives special warmth to They Didn't Believe Me and The Last Time I Saw Paris. Lena...
...bits with varying results. By far the worst of these contributions is a second round with "Old Man River" with Frank Sinatra, the co-ed's Caruso, sliding all over the range in an effort to bring this great folk-tune into the bedroom. Among the brighter spots are Van Johnson's cocky clowning through "I Won't Dance" and Lena Horne's delivery of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" with the force of a tropical storm and the understanding reminiscent of the days when gals perched step pianos...