Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vigorous Ethel Alpenfels, 30, is the Denver-born daughter of a German baron, a schoolmate of the late great Marshal von" Hindenburg. She took her A.B. at the University of Washington, is now studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She has been a volunteer social worker in Judge Ben Lindsey's once-famed Denver juvenile court, a schoolteacher and Y.W.C.A. camp worker. At the University of Washington she took anthropology as a snap course to make up lost credits, found herself a career...
Died. Henry Snell, 1st Baron of Plumstead, 79, the House of Lords's capable Government spokesman; in London. Son of a farm laborer, he started work as a potboy, rose to the London County Council, Parliament, the peerage. Onetime Fabian Socialist, he plumped vigorously for marital reforms, himself remained a bachelor. He chose his title, Plumstead, from part of a London working-class district which first sent him to Parliament...
Ensign Edith Kingdon Gould (see cut), sightly great-granddaughter of the late Robber Baron Jay Gould, stood at the head of her graduating class at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Northampton, Mass. Not a college graduate, the daughter of socialite Financier Kingdon Gould of Manhattan enlisted in the WAVES as an apprentice seaman in October 1942, worked her way through t he ranks to an officer-candidate appointment...
Into his place stepped a hardheaded Scotsman, 65-year-old Thomas Sivewright Catto, First Baron Catto of Cairncatto,* a British businessman of worldwide experience, who during the last three years has been joint advisor, with John Maynard Keynes, now First Baron Keynes of Tilton, to his Majesty's Treasury in Whitehall...
...Marshal, meaning his own. He still turns now & again to admire the full length portrait of his younger self which hangs behind his chair, and to dream of the time (1941) when he led his troops into Odessa. But no longer does he really believe that brutal, brassy Baron Manfred von Killinger, Hitler's resident emissary, is serious when he asks for the Marshal's advice...