Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Richard Brinsley Norton, 87, fifth Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords; five weeks after he was named co-respondent in a successful divorce action (TIME, July 12); in London. His hobby: collecting dolls, from Restoration to Victorian...
Died. Josiah Clement ("Josh") Wedgwood, 71, Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
Allied air headquarters in North Africa reported that famed Baron Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen, a remote cousin of the World War I hero, had been sent to the Mediterranean to command Kesselring's air forces. The Allied statement said that Kesselring and Richthofen had quarreled before, suggested that they may be quarreling...
That 87-year-old Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...
...popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts are Australia's Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist (suffering from jungle diseases that may finish their big-time tennis careers), Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska (unreported since the Nazi invasion of Poland) and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, whose capture in Tunisia was reported, then denied...