Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little depressing, but the biography is a multicolored high. With a series of old Sunday strips, black and white panels and prose reminiscences, Peanuts Creator Charles M. Schulz follows his charges from their days as Saturday Evening Post cartoons to the halcyon epoch of Snoopy as the Red Baron, Lucy as a 5? psychiatrist, and Charlie Brown as the boy who firmly decides to be wishy one day and washy the next. Schulz's humor remains poignant, whimsical and informed with religious insight-The Gospel According to Peanuts was more than a bestseller; it was the truth...
Died. Wendell Phillips, 54, flamboyant archaeologist-oil baron who headed the Wendell Phillips Oil Company; of a heart attack; in Arlington, Va. A onetime newspaper boy who studied paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley, Phillips accumulated a fortune estimated at $120 million. By his own account, his rise began when he visited Oman in 1952 on an archaeological expedition. There, said Phillips, he met and became friends with Sultan Said bin Taimur, who informed him, "By the will of God we shall have oil, for I am grant ing you the oil concession for Dhofar" -an area...
...seemed like forever, but you finally broke down and put someone worth noting on your cover [Nov. 10]. She's not a current or fallen leader, foreign oil baron, natural or man-made disaster, lunatic with a gun or expert...
...months without word wore on, the Hearsts spent less time at home. They preferred to escape to Wyntoon, the Northern California retreat that belonged to William Randolph Hearst, the press baron who was Randolph's father. Not since early June of 1974, when Patty proclaimed in a tape that she would rather die than be surrounded by "pigs like the Hearsts," had there been any message from...
...many ways the tenured professor is like a baron. Once titled, he has enormous prestige in the academic community, few restrictions on his work and the security of a guaranteed income for life...