Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alice's Adventures in Cambridge, published in 1913, is a quite clever adaptation of the Alice story to a Harvard environment. Written by R. C. Evarts '13 and illustrated by E. L. Baron '13, both Lampoon editors, the book whimsically ridicules a number of Harvard professors, and revels in the apparent non sequiturs of an academic microcosm...
...Reventlow Grant Troubetskoy Rubirosa, 43 this week, ex-countess, twice an ex-princess, motored back to her rose-festooned Ritz Hotel suite in Paris with her sixth groom. Having demoted herself to a baroness, Barbara beamed nonetheless at her attentive husband, once Nazi Germany's top tennis ace, Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46. He had met Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much right away, but we decided to wait a few years before getting married." Chimed in the baroness: "I ought to have married...
Married. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionheiress; and Baron Gottfried von Cramm, 46, onetime top German tennis star; she for the sixth, he for the second time; in Versailles. France (see PEOPLE...
Bogart reveals that he is not a priest at all: he is an American airman, shot down over China, who took service with a Chinese robber baron, and now all he wants is to get back to some of mom's pan-fried mush. And so the way is dynamited to a happy ending...
...rless' friends-a young baron who is a Storm Trooper in embryo-all this is philosophical proof "that merely being human means nothing." Author Musil is at pains to suggest that such dark impulses sprouting from the confusions of youth are part of growing up. Like a nightmare, the whole perverted episode has not really damaged young Törless-or has it? The boy had briefly "lost his sense of direction [but] an indefinable hidden disgust never quite left him . . ." Readers of this odd but provocative book may wonder whether this sentence does not apply to Old Europe...