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...Willem Mengelberg, famed Dutch conductor and onetime (1922-30) chief of the New York Philharmonic, whose guest appearances with German symphony orchestras continued comfortably after Nazi occupation of Holland...
Next day angry, pride-wounded Skipper Jockie sued Hotel Proprietor Meyer for $800 damages. Magistrate Willem van Lingen ordered a payment of $200-plus-costs to the plaintiff...
Died. Hendrik Willem van Loon, 62, merchant prince of literary popularizers ; of a heart attack ; in Old Greenwich, Conn. The pleasure-loving, 290-lb., 6 ft. 3 in. Cornellman ('05) was successively a Washington reporter, Belgian and Russian correspondent, European graduate student, U.S. college professor (Antioch, 1922-23), associate editor of the Baltimore Sun (1923-24). He discovered his talent for the affable packaging of intellectual pabulum with his Story of Mankind (1921). With a roughage of Dutch wit, a vitamin-content of "human-interest background," and doodled-over with his own pen-&-ink sketches, his The Story...
THOMAS JEFFERSON-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Dodd, Mead ($2.50); The present generation, says Author Van Loon (Van Loon's Geography-TIME, Sept. 12, 1932; The Arts-TIME, Oct. 4, 1937), should have object lessons in the lives of "nice, comfortable, decent, human heroes with nobility in their souls." Thomas Jefferson is such a lesson-106 pages of amiable discourse. Only a general outline is given of Jefferson as statesman, and the book is likely to go down best with youth. Illustrations in color and line-plus-wash by the author...
Later Pierre (Maurice Tauzin) falls in. A chance nose count by Pied Piper Woolley reveals that a towheaded Dutch waif named Willem (Merrill Rodin) is also with them. Says Woolley: "I am occasionally seized with the conviction that I am convoying guinea pigs...