Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salo W. Baron, Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, gave the first Israel Goldman Memorial Lecture last night in Paine Hall. He spoke on "The Jewish Factor in our Civilization...
...Minute Women, founded in 1949 in Norwalk, Conn., and spearheaded by a Belgian-born sculptress, Suzanne Silvercruys Stevenson (sister of Belgium's Ambassador Baron Robert Silvercruys), had one of its biggest and most active chapters in Houston. The Minute Women insisted that they did not act as a group, rather as "individuals." When they first saw Newsman O'Leary, they tape-recorded the interview, and one ex-member even demanded that an FBI man be present for another interview. O'Leary was asked: "We're 100% pro-American. Are you?" Much of their work was done...
Married. Rosemary Turner McMahon, 36, widow of the late Brien McMahon, Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1945-52) and head of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; and Baron Robert Silvercruys, 59, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.; he for the first time, she for the second; in a quiet church ceremony; in Washington...
...cramped and sore. Her face showed no sign of her trouble as she stood -aloof, beautiful and dignified in flowing white brocade-to receive the distinguished noblemen and diplomats who thronged the glittering reception hall in the great palazzo. Gravely smiling, she greeted, in half-a-dozen languages, each baron and ambassador, each banker's lady and minister of state with the correct slight nod and carefully chosen words. There seemed to be not a flaw in the well-ordered proceedings. Then the camera peeped impertinently beneath the princess' royal skirts. It revealed the awful fact that...
Dolls Aren't Real. Audrey's mother belonged to an ancient family in the Dutch nobility; their home was once the Castle of Doom, in which the defeated German Kaiser spent his declining years. Audrey's grandfather, Baron Aernoud van Heemstra, onetime governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, was a familiar figure at the court of Queen Wilhelmina...