Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, 31, one of 1963's ten best-dressed women, and Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 42, German-born Swiss industrialist: their second child, first son; in Castagnola, Switzerland...
...family's business. Last year, despite Brazil's eroding currency, the business grossed well over $60 million. As to which of the many branches is the most profitable, that is a secret the family holds tightly. "I always remember what my father told me about Baron Rothschild," says Israel Klabin. "When he was dying, Rothschild called in his sons and said: 'I have only two things to tell you. Never show your books, and good night and goodbye...
...University also awarded degrees to George F. Kennan, the historian of Soviet foreign policy and Ambassador to Yugoslavia: Sir Maurice Bowra, the great classical scholar and critic (Doctor of Letters) and to the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Alexander Todd, Baron Trumpington (Doctor of Science...
...spring proceeded. Baron Kurtvon Tippelskirch, German consul General in Boston, placed a laurel wreath in Memorial Church to honor the four German Harvardmen who had died in the first World War. A day before Hitler had announced the scraping of the Versailles Treaty and the creation of a new German army...
Where will the money come from? The editors are not saying-possibly because they don't yet know. Critic Edmund Wilson, who contributed a sprightly three-page interview with himself in issue No. 2, speculated that the angel might be "one of those Baltic barons" who married a rich American and, now that she has died and left him all her money, "doesn't know what to do with it." Wilson obviously thinks his bogus baron could do worse than to spend it supporting the Review. "God knows that some such thing is needed," said he. "The disappearance...