Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Town & Country has been quietly slipping ever since Editor Harry Bull resigned from the 100-year-old Hearst-owned monthly (TIME, April 28, 1947). Bull's successor, Paris-born Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, didn't make the grade. Casting around for somebody new, the top Hearst brass asked ex-Hearstling Sell whether he knew a good editor. Said Sell: "Yes, me!" It was a deal, with the understanding that Editor Sell would go on running his meat business and keeping an eye on his Blaker Advertising Agency...
Representatives of eight Atlantic, Pact nations emerged from a two-hour-and-20-minute conference and stepped into a reception room on the fifth floor of the U.S. State Department, as pleased and smiling as though they had delivered a bouncing, 8-lb. boy. The Belgian ambassador, Baron Silvercruys, gave out a verbal bulletin: "It's all fine, agreed and everything...
FROM THE CITY, FROM THE PLOUGH (224 pp.)-Alexander Baron - Washburn...
...Died. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, 73, onetime bigwig Italian diplomat, who, as a delegate to the League of Nations, was Mussolini's chief apologist for the invasion of Ethiopia; in Rome...
...because of the war with the rival All-America Football Conference (which has boosted halfbacks' salaries to as high as $20,000 a season), he finished $29,000 in the red with his championship team. Says Thompson, who in 1930 inherited $5,000,000 from his steel-baron father: "I no longer think football is a good investment...