Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newly formed Newsletter Association of America did agree, however, that their business is flourishing, readers are willing to pay ever higher subscription prices and nearly everyone is getting into the act. Out-of-work political operatives, for example, are finding second careers in the field: former Democratic Strategist Alan Baron claims 2,400 readers (most pay $39) for the Baron Report he launched last summer, and ex-Nixon Aide Kevin Phillips says he has nearly 1,000 subscribers to his $94-a-year American Political Report. Among the latest victims of newsletter fever are magazine and book publishers: U.S. News...
...good company," gloated Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell. As the latest artist to create a wine label for the renowned French vintner Baron Philippe de Rothschild, 75, Motherwell joined the ranks of Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Braque. Titled Les Caves (the wine cellars), his design is a "primordial image," he explained as he signed and numbered the labels on a dozen bottles of 1974 Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Manhattan. "Chagall and Braque did joyful symbols, but I have a much deeper feeling about wine," said Motherwell, who received 16 cases of Mouton (approximate value: $5,000) for his labors...
...became a tough New York reporter. But underneath his not-so-mild-mannered facade, he was the greatest superhero of all, vulnerable to only one substance: Cronkite. And Brinkley was alone. All the other superheroes were dead or useless. Snoopy was missing in action after the Red Baron finally shot him down. Wonder Woman was working for Ms. Magazine. Captain Mantra was in a suburban sanitarium, after swearing off the use of his superpowers when he witnessed the death of his sister Mary. An Amtrak train obliterated her after Dr. Spock bound and gagged her on the tracks...
Olga and Masha urge Irina to accept a proposal of marriage from an oddly self-mocking anti-hero named Baron Tusenbach (Austin Pendleton). Though Irina does not love him, she does deeply respect him and reluctantly agrees. But Irina is besieged by another suitor, a man as menacing as a bayonet thrust, Staff Captain Solyony (Rene Au-berjonois), who is romantically desperate for her love. Solyony challenges the baron to a duel, and all dreams end with a pistol shot...
After an unsuccessful bid to buy the Sunday Observer, Goldsmith established a beachhead in British journalism last January by paying Press Baron Rupert Murdoch $3 million for 35% of the non-voting shares in London's Beaverbrook newspaper chain, which includes the ailing daily Express. Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Now Sir Jimmy has struck at the other end of his London-Paris axis: for $6 million he has purchased a 45% share in L'Express, France's largest newsweekly. The magazine's founder, gadfly Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and his family will retain...