Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even to the losers, the advantages of playing in the EPU game far outweighed the drawbacks of going it alone. Last week 18 stockholder nations held a solemn board meeting in the Château de la Muette, onetime Paris home of Baron Henri de Rothschild. They decided unanimously that, win or lose, the game must go on, at least for another year. But medievalism in the European economy was proving abominably hard...
Summer guests at a hotel in Bad Ischl, in the Austrian lake country, noted the hand-in-hand riverbank walks of Baron Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 61, and a grey-wigged fellow guest who called herself Mrs. Harriet Brown. Beneath the wig: 46-year-old Incognito Expert Greta Garbo, who had shifted from the usual sun glasses to the trappings of middle age. But to reporters who finally penetrated the disguise, Garbo gave the same old answer: "I don't want to talk to anyone . . . The Baron is just a very good friend...
...Crapouillot (the Trench Mortar) last December went so far as to suggest that Marthe herself could do with some reforming. Citing her own book My Life as a Spy, the editor suggested that Marthe's heroism in the underground had consisted largely of a lightning-love rendezvous with Baron Hans von Krohn, German naval attache in Madrid in 1915. "Captain," Marthe had told her superior when the proposition was put to her, "it is a sacrifice costlier than death." "The Service demands it," answered the captain. "Before this beautiful duty, your small moral objections are worth nothing." After this...
...REFERENCE TO THESE MEN AS "SEVEN OF THE BLACKEST NAZIS STILL ALIVE" IS CONTRARY TO FACT, BIASED, AND SERVES TO PREJUDICE THE PENDING APPEALS FOR THESE MEN. RUDOLF HESS TOOK POSITIVE ACTION FOR PEACE EARLY IN WORLD WAR II. GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ AND ADMIRAL RAEDER WERE COURAGEOUS NAVAL LEADERS. BARON VON NEURATH, ALBERT SPEER, WALTER FUNK AND BALDUR VON SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING ON THE LOSING SIDE ... A COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT AMERICANS HAS BEEN FORMED TO WORK FOR THE RELEASE...
...David Ogilvy, 41, vice president of Manhattan's Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc. He got the idea from pictures of ex-Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who has worn a patch ever since he lost the sight of one eye in a fishing accident. (The man in the ad is Baron George Wrangell, émigré nephew of a White Russian general, whose eyes are perfectly good...