Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LeROY VAN COTT Yellowstone Park...
...Right (alas, alas) is Reader Lambert, onetime collaborator with ghost-breaker Harry Price (The Haunting of Cashen's Gap). To a Rip Van Winklish TIME reporter in London: wake...
RICHARD L. VAN NORT Haddonfield...
...onetime masters and onetime colonials were waiting for Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the East Indies Acting Governor General. In London and The Hague, determined Dr. Van Mook had pressed for a semi-autonomous Indonesia within a new Netherlands Commonwealth, and he had sold his idea, despite the opposition of diehard Dutch imperialists. Last week, as he prepared to fly back to Batavia, he said: "I am convinced that after one generation the Indonesians can reach full equality of status with Europeans. I hope we will come to terms. . . . There are groups in Java suitable for us to negotiate with...
Trade-school ads urged: "Become an Expert Accountant," "Get into Radio Electronics." Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Presbyterian president of interdenominational Union Theological Seminary, thought to himself: if mechanical engineers can be recruited, why not ministers? Concluding that the best material for future ministers lay in the armed forces, Van Dusen got together with Union's Board Chairman Thatcher M. Brown and Oilman-Philanthropist Walter C. Teagle. Result: a threeyear, $30,000-a-year program, to advertise the ministry as a career and to help students toward...