Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord-or What? No sooner had Vicki's plane landed than David James Douglas, 37, 7th Baron Nugent of Clonlost, presented himself ("Athletic and amusing," said Vicki). Soon after, over cocktails at a London club, Vicki inspected two more candidates, 41-year-old Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley ("charming") and Edward Arthur Donald St. George Hamilton Chichester, 52, 6th Marquess of Donegal and governor of Carrick-fergus Castle ("suave"). "I didn't know what to call them-my lord, or what," said Vicki. "They told me the correct way was to say Lord...
John Raymond Godley, 34, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, from Killegar House in Ireland's County Cavan, invited Vicki for a weekend on his estate, met her at the Dublin airport in a grey cutaway coat and topper with a bouquet of roses and shamrocks, and a coach and four. Vicki proceeded to stay the weekend in the 150-year-old mansion, whose highceilinged, chandeliered gloom has never been desecrated by electricity. "Did you do any hunting?" Vicki was asked. "No," she replied, "but I was photographed with a Black Angus calf...
...phrase is gathering new meaning among U.S. businessmen. The phrase is "company raiding," but very few businessmen agree on a precise definition. Originally, the term was coined in the robber-baron days of the late1800s and bore connotations of watered stock, rigged markets, stolen company assets. Today, some businessmen use the phrase to describe shrewd investors who snap up an undervalued company with the idea of liquidating it for a quick profit; others apply it to investors who take over such firms and ram through drastic changes to improve the properties and turn in bigger profits. The phrase has been...
...Family. In his zest, his super-salesmanship, his devotion to beer, Gussie Busch follows in the well-marked footsteps of his beer-baron ancestors. The brewery is still controlled by the founding families. Together with St. Louis' Anheuser family, the Busch clan owns 65% of Anheuser-Busch's 4,816,218 outstanding shares; Gussie himself owns 22%, worth some $20 million, and is paid a salary of $150,000 a year. Eberhard Anheuser, the 74-year-old grandson of one of the founders, is chairman of the board, but Gussie, grandson of the other founder...
Purpling at rumors that he plans to sell his St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, Beer (Budweiser) Baron August ("Gussie") Busch foamed: "This is the lousiest, dirtiest, meanest thing that has ever happened to me . . . Damn it, that's the biggest kick I get out of life any more-even when we have a season like this one." With the team in seventh place in the National League, Owner Busch was still aghast to consider his own fate if he were to sell it down the river: "My life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel in St. Louis...