Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...
Elsie (nobody knows her true name) is a typical sufferer from what Dr. Asher calls the "Munchausen syndrome," after the famed yarn-spinning baron. Her kind troops from hospital to hospital in psychopathic search of drama and attention. The Elsies, says Dr. Asher, often "seem to gain nothing except . . . discomfiture . . . Their initial tolerance to the more brutish hospital measures is remarkable, yet they commonly discharge themselves after a few days with operation wounds scarcely healed . . . Their effrontery is sometimes formidable, and they may appear many times at the same hospital. hoping to meet a new doctor on whom to practice...
...ball in Paris, Viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles asked guests to come dressed as if they were going to a 1900 frolic at a seaside resort. The result: U.S. Ambassador David Bruce came as a valet de chambre, with Mrs. Bruce turned out as a lady's maid; Baron Alain de Rothschild played a bearded sea captain; Couturier Jacques Fath slipped into a simple bearskin creation, to match the gypsy getup of his pretty blonde wife, who is his favorite model...
...Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave...
Another member of the fraternity, though unequipped with a pilot's license, spent several years flying passenger planes in Honduras and Nicaragua. Fired at length for letting his wife fly the plane, he persuaded two Managua operators known as The Baron" and "Wheeler the Dealer" to put up $1,500 for him to go to the States and buy them a brick-manufacturing machine. When last heard of, he had indeed bought the machine-and set up in business for himself with it in Miami...