Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rensselaer, 30, a onetime Manhattan model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent the past few months husking poetry to each other in romantic Venetian settings, there has been no recent sign of Babs's sixth husband, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 48, onetime tennistar, in her immediate vicinity. Will Phil be No. 7?."You're flattering me terribly," bubbled Heiress Hutton. "It's not true." But at week's end, boyish Phil Van Rensselaer could not contain his own enchantment. He confided to a Manhattan newshen...
...never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...
Died. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...
...world that he was "Philip-just Philip" has not only acquired a hairbrush, but a sonorous list of ranks and titles-he is a Knight Commander of the Garter, the officially designated "First Gentleman of the Realm,"* His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth. Baron Greenwich, Field Marshal, Air Marshal and Fleet Admiral of the Royal Navy-and an allowance of pocket money from the privy purse sufficient ($112,000 yearly) to maintain his position in style...
...actions than they were thirsty. "We got a new slogan," rasped one Hoffaman: " 'Haggerty for integrity. Hoffa for president.' " Bill Lee, too, ran a losing battle, for among other things, he boasted the doubtful backing of Western Conference Teamster Boss Frank Brewster, a corruption-stained baron who had long fought Hoffa's climb to power. Didn't everybody know that Jimmy was going to sacrifice Brewster to the wolves before convention...