Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since mid-May, 1,000 G.I.s and Germans a day have thronged through an A.M.G.-sponsored art show in Wiesbaden. In paintings gathered from bombed-out German museums (notably Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe...
Other skirmishes loomed around workers in the South's leading cotton mills. Van Bittner, bulky chief of C.I.O. organizers, summoned a council of war next week at Columbia, S.C. to map regional strategy. "The cotton textile industry offers the widest field," said Bittner, naming North Carolina's Cannon towel mills and Georgia's Bibb Manufacturing Co. as redoubts to be taken...
There were two levels of the wartime underground in Europe: anonymous patriots who could sometimes fight back a little, and-farther down-wanted men who had to burrow and keep hidden. Gisele van der Gracht's Amsterdam apartment was a station in the subcellar underground. Gisele, a thin blonde in her 30s, was a first-rank Dutch artist, known for her stained-glass window designs. During the occupation she spent half her days on bread lines to feed the men she was hiding. To help them pass the terrible time, she also found pens, ink and paper...
Once they set foot in her apartment, Gisele's "boys" were there to stay. They dozed in the daytime, stayed awake nights "so there would not be too many warm beds in case of a Gestapo raid." Three of the hunted, Peter Goldschmidt (22), Simon van Keulen (19) and Harry Op het Veld (19) spent their nights sitting around a table lit by a wick in brilliantine, drawing. There was not much paper, so they took as long as possible on each picture...
David William Fay, John Van Ness Fisher, James Henry Gliman, Jr., Walter Bacon McVeigh, Richard Clarence Row, Richard Cary Williams...