Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Referring to the autobiographic tall tales in Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, written as a 49-page potboiler in London in 1785 by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-94), a fugitive embezzler from Hanover, and enlarged in later editions by Grub Street hacks...
...Best. Von Braun's origins had deep earthly roots in Prussian Junkerdom. A Von Braun fought the Mongols at Liegnitz in 1245, and the family's aristocracy was certified by the centuries. Wernher was born in Wirsitz, East Prussia (now part of Poland), the middle son of Baron Magnus von Braun, the local state administrator. Today Wernher's older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment, Baron Magnus...
Wernher von Braun, 45, rugged (5 ft. 11 in., 185 lbs.) son of Prussian Baron Magnus von Braun, is director of the development operations division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Ala., stands out as the inspirational as well as the scientific leader of the Men of Jupiter. At 18 Von Braun was working with crude liquid-fuel rockets, using Berlin's municipal dump; one day a black sedan stopped. Three German army officers stepped out, offered Von Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket...
...Rome but always bought up threatened nearby properties dirt-cheap before dousing the flames), he picked up many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman creamery. There the Duce saw that the milkmaids, bent on beautifying their skins, were taking baths in the milk before it was bottled...
Thirty years ago, Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone made an agonizing reappraisal of his business, reached a decision: for the first time since he founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, he would have to make a low-cost tire. The best way to sell it and still uphold the firm's reputation for quality was with an institutional-type show of good music-which his wife Idabelle adored. So on Monday night, Dec. 3, 1928, The Voice of Firestone crackled out over 41 stations of the NBC network, between Physical Culture Prince and The A. & P. Gypsies. Unlike...