Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite symbolic. It recalls for many of us here Bernard Lorjou's The Dying Bull, [see cut]. The original painting hangs directly opposite the desk of our senior partner, who finds it an ever-present reminder that no "sacred cows" or immortal bulls roam Wall Street. As Baron Rothschild put it: "Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon...
Died. Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, first Baron Percy of Newcastle, 71, writer and lecturer, onetime (1935-36) British Minister without Portfolio, known as "Stanley Baldwin's Thinking Machine"; in London...
...CROSS OF BARON SAMEDI (502 pp.)-Richard Dohrman-Houghton Miff...
...Artist as Undertaker. Novelist Dohrman follows his ostensible theme-that Nature makes men weak-at the expense of his real one, learned too late by Owen: "If we are weak, we are not strong, and what we are, you see, ruins everything." In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ironic way, the baron is Author Dohrman's severest critic. How much closer can a writer get to the portrait...
...Teenage Frankenstein (American-International). There's this mad scientist, see. He's a descendant of Baron Frankenstein, the mad scientist who invented Boris Karioff, and naturally he wants to keep up the family tradition. So one day he ups to another scientist and says, sneaky-like: "I plan to assemble a human being." His friend is horrified. "But, Professor Frankenstein, you can't-" Oh yes, he can, and what's more, he plans to make a teen-age monster. After all, I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a howling success at the box office last year...