Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virility of its practitioners (Louis XIII boasted he could blow a whole day without weakening). Although blue-blooded huntsmen have long lamented the passing of the horn's heartier days, few have addressed themselves to the problem with the energy of Belgium's 59-year-old Baron Marcel Schaetzen de Schaetzenhoff. Last week the Baron invited some of the leading horn groups of Europe to a Grand Festival of Hunting Horns and Venery* held at his 10th century Château of Laarne near Ghent...
...Pointe aux Trembles on Montreal Island last week, Petrofina opened a new $30 million refinery, designed by Belgian Engineer Baron Prosper de Haulleville. The plant will give year-round service to the company's Eastern Canada outlets. Crude oil will be carried by tanker from Petrofina wells in Kuwait, fed into a pipeline at Portland, Me., then piped more than 200 miles to Montreal so that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast...
...sheepish Frederic more of a contrast; Dee Victor grated well as Isabelle's unbearably oafish mother; Olive Dunbar overplayed Capulet, the servant with romatic ideas, a little too much; Stanley Jay as the crumbling butler, Laurinda Barrett as the vampish Lady India, and Kilty himself as the money baron, were all excellent...
...British Isles (about .88% of the total population) who worship in 450 established synagogues; 13 Jewish peers sit in the House of Lords and 19 Jews in the House of Commons; two hold high government jobs-the Marquess of Reading is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and Baron Mancroft is Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs. Of the 110,000 British Jews who served in the armed forces during World Wars I and II, 12,000 were killed and eight won the Victoria Cross...
Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 44, oil-heir-turned-Arkansas-cattle-baron; and Jeannette Edris Barrager Hartley McDonnell, 37, Seattle real-estate million-heiress; he for the second time (his first: Barbara - "Bobo" - Jievute Paulekiute Sears), she for the fourth (her first: Nate Barrager, 1929 football captain at the University of Southern California); at Hayden Lake, Idaho...