Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectability Ensor professed to fear finally overtook him, and he yielded without a struggle. In 1929 King Albert made him a baron. Before his death in 1949, he saw his paintings hung in most of Belgium's museums. In Ostend, a tablet was placed on the wall of his house, a street was named for him, and a statue was erected. Artist Ensor unveiled the statue himself...
...LeBlanc with some of the same techniques. Last week, LeBlanc, a Louisiana state senator, and Lieutenant Governor William J. Dodd, both candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor of Louisiana, talked about forming a combined ticket. One would run for governor, the other for lieutenant governor. The Hadacol baron, who had just sold his business for $8,200,000,* proposed that each put up $250,000 to finance the campaign. They set a date to talk. "Bring along your nickels, friend," said LeBlanc, "and then let us talk about who runs at the head of the ticket and who runs...
...Died. Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, 69, Nazi diplomat, Hitler's last Ambassador to the Vatican; after a brain illness; in Lindau, Germany. In 1949 he was sentenced at a Niirnberg war crimes trial to seven years in prison (he served 18 months) principally for writing "no objection" on an order to deport 6,000 Jews from France to Poland...
...Baron's reducing classes have nicely filled the summer slump in his hypnotism lectures. At first he took no fees, but last week, with 70 clients, he began to charge newcomers $2.50 a lesson...
Psychiatrists are leery of group hypnosis: they say that a borderline mental case, thus hypnotized, may slip over the line into insanity. Baron insists: "My work is ethical and psychological. It's purely a research project...