Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case stood exactly where it had before. Galindez is still listed as a missing person by New York police; Murphy is dead, and so is the Dominican pilot who admittedly killed him; the FBI still wants Espaillat to waive his diplomatic immunity for questioning. Sydney Baron, the ex-Tammany Hall pressagent who acted as go-between for Trujillo and Ernst, said that the inquiry was "very comprehensive and expensive," that both Ernst and Baron would probably get more than their original guarantees, boosting the cost past the first estimate of $160,000. Trujillo doubtless will cheerfully...
Died. Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, Baron Webb-Johnson, 77, onetime (1941-49) president of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, longtime (1936-53) personal surgeon to the late Queen Mary; in London. When the stricken Rudyard Kipling was rushed to the Middlesex Hospital in early 1936, Webb-Johnson operated for a perforated ulcer, but was unable to save the patient...
Luftwaffe lieutenant who called himself "Baron" von Werra and claimed he had bagged at least 13 British planes before he was shot down over southern England in 1940. When the British disdainfully disproved about half of Von Werra's claims, he only laughed and proposed a wager: "A magnum of champagne against ten cigarettes that I escape in six months...
...rousing historical scenes of the great 19th century French Romantic, Eugene Delacroix, including The Algerian Combat.* Hill's own sound maxim, discovered early: good art drives out bad. In his last years, while the townspeople along "Jim Hill's main line" variously called him a robber baron or praised his drive and enterprise, the old tycoon used to spend hours every week in communion with his romantic French artists...
Born. To Edith Kingdon Gould Martin, 37, great-granddaughter of "Robber Baron" Jay Gould, sometime child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), World War II lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, and Guy Martin, 47, lawyer: their first daughter, fourth child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Edith Maria Theodosia Burr. Weight...