Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McGovern (R) defeated Mann (D) 3-0; Reath (R) defeated McGean (D) 3-0; Stahi (D) defeated McKittrick (R) 3-2; U.R. Foster (R) defeated Feldberg (D) 3-0; U.K. Foster (R) defeated Cameron (D) 3-1; Emerson (R) defeated Kurr (D) 3-0; Mead (R) defeated Van Rantle...
There was a time when young Pieter van Jaarsveld took it for granted that everybody could see water underground. He could. One day, when he was still very young, Pieter saw his father digging a well in a corner of the family farm beneath which there was obviously (to Pieter) no water. Pieter suggested another spot. His father tried it and struck a cool, clear gusher. Pieter nodded wisely. Some years later his schoolteacher lost a gold ring under the sand and Pieter found it for him with a single glance. Ever since then Pieter (now 16) has been kept...
...Van Meegeren was less pleased when D. A. Hoogendijk, a trusted Amsterdam dealer, who had sold two of the forgeries, testified sadly: "Now that I look around this courtroom and see all these paintings together, I don't understand how I could ever have believed them to be Vermeers...
...must have been the strains of the war that weakened my judgment." Sternly, the judge asked Van Meegeren why he had "done this thing." Replied the 58-year-old painter: "Because no one noticed my work." Van Meegeren wanted to know what was to become of his paintings. Informed that they would be returned to the suckers who had bought them (including the Dutch Government), he breathed a sigh of relief. The court might have ordered the paintings destroyed, and thus robbed Van Meegeren of his niche in art history...
...Van Meegeren was actually tickled to get only one year in jail. "Two years," he told a reporter, "is the maximum punishment for such a thing. I know because I looked it up in our laws twelve years ago, before I started all this. But sir, I'm sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years...