Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Baron Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympics (1896), made a noble argument for reviving the ancient games: "The cause of peace will have received a new and powerful support." Just the opposite is likely to happen at the 16th Olympiad in Australia this fall, says the Naval Academy's veteran Crew Coach Russell ("Rusty") Callow-unless someone beats the whey out of the Russians. A Russian victory, Rusty told a Baltimore men's club last week, "would bring on an arrogance that would endanger the peace of the world...
Died. John Campbell Boot, 67, second Baron Trent of Nottingham, longtime (1926-54) head of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the vast (more than 1.300 shops in Great Britain) British drugstore chain founded by his father; in St. Lawrence, island of Jersey...
...Burke's but listed under the name of a relative, the Earl of Westmeath. Nugent further explained that his family's patriotism was the cause of all the trouble. An Irish ancestor named Walter Nugent served with other relatives in the Austrian army and was made Baron Nugent of Clonlost by the Emperor Franz Josef in 1859. When the first baron's descendants returned to England, the title was authenticated by a royal warrant signed by Britain's Edward VII in 1908. But with the advent of World War I, Nugent's grand-uncle-like...
...shouldn't see why it would matter. Is Farouk Mr. Farouk because he lost his kingdom?" But a spokesman for Burke's ruled sternly: "Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain." In Hollywood, TV Producer Jack Elliott, who is putting together the Baron Nugent-Vicki Benet series, took a meat-and-potatoes view of the case: "The show has been put off until this thing gets cleared up. We don't want to put our backers in a spot...
...power that his life has become." Many a perplexed reader wondered what the devil had got into the Express. This unflattering portrait was none other than that of the Express' own boss and Britain's foxiest old (75) press lord, William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook...