Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, red-haired cough-syrup heiress (TIME, April 19, 1943), who romped off to Buenos Aires two years ago after divorcing husband No. 5 and denouncing the U.S., declared herself finished with Nazi Baron Herbert von Strempel (up-to-the-last-minute favorite for No. 6) and ready to marry again. Her new intended was 20-year-old Carlos Ojeda, son of Mexico's Ambassador to Argentina. A short-time Columbia student, Carlos spoke enough English to reveal that she was "the most perfect cook I ever saw; she captured me by the tummy." Cried the thirtyish...
...Iran's Ebtehaj. No one knew last week how they would line up; most of the preliminary skirmishing between the British and the Americans in the Battle of the Blueprints has taken place under cover. The first open blow was struck last spring by John Maynard Keynes, First Baron Tilton, with a proposal that in effect would give the British dominance in world currency arrangements. The second was a counterproposal by Harry D. White for the U.S. Treasury, giving the U.S. the upper hand through its vast hoard of gold...
Died. Frederick William, Lewis, Baron Essendon, 74, the "Napoleon of British shipping," longtime chairman of Furness-Withy & Co., Ltd. (Furness Lines); in London...
Perennial. In Manheim, Pa., the Zion Lutheran Church made payment No. 172 on the church plot, in accord with Baron William Henry von Stiegel's 1772 stipulation: in return for the deed "one red rose annually in the month of June for ever . . . shall be lawfully demanded by my heirs...
...Jumbo" or the censors so much as London officialdom. The U.S. press, which for the most part has squirmed silently under increasing censorship pressures, took courage from the stirring of the powerful, slow-to-anger A.P. U.S. newsmen were also heartened last week to hear England's press baron, Lord Rothermere (London Daily Mail, et al.) echo the old cry of Kent Cooper for treaties guaranteeing universal freedom of the press. Declared Viscount Rothermere: "A free press is apparently a greater deterrent to the making of war than anything that can be laid down in peace treaties...