Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Band held its annual fall concert, featuring Boston Symphony Orchestra's trombone soloist Ronald Baron, last night...
Toward the end of his life, generously laden with honors and awards, he found himself surrounded, like the wine baron in one of his last poems, by uncritical admirers. But he could still regard his immense reputation with humor and grace. "I used to want to live/ to avoid your elegy," he wrote of the late John Berryman; and he did live, if not as long as his friends or the world would have wanted, at least long enough to write...
...star away from another network or plan a secret strategy?Silverman, head of ABC's programming, draws his drapes: if he can look into Wussler's office, Wussler can look into his, and Silverman does not want anyone, especially anyone at CBS, to know where the Red Baron will strike next...
...miles a month for "exposure" -get a free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram's Gin) and a hearts-and-cupids background emblazoned HOW'S YOUR LOVE LIFE? (Ultra-Brite toothpaste). Owners of Lincolns and Cadillacs have tried to enroll their cars, but to no avail. This form of beetlemania is for Volkses only...
Once in Oshkosh, the builder-flyers demonstrated their airs above ground: one man performed slow aerobatics in his Starduster while listening to Strauss waltzes over his on-board earphones; another, goggled and scarfed like the Red Baron himself, eased his bulbous-nosed Der Jager into the friendly skies. There were also rides in a Ford Tri-Motor to be had for a mere $10 and the Red Devil Acrobatic Biplane Squad to watch as it performed an amazing array of intricate patterns and loops and dives...