Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chunky owner of the voice, Edwin L. Baron, "master hypnotist," padded softly among the entranced women. When an eyelid fluttered, he put his hand on the sleeper's forehead, murmuring his message again. "Now I will count to three and you will wake up," he said briskly. With yawns and stretches, they woke. The lesson had lasted half an hour...
...bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode from Boston to New Haven in a day coach. But Railroad Baron Dumaine rode home in a Pullman compartment. Working up until the end, he spent a busy day on the telephone, collapsed, was put to bed, died during the night. His last words: "It wasn't worth...
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
Suspecting that he had played too many love sets with the Nazis during the war, the French government refused a visa to Germany's aging (42) Court Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, scheduled to play in the French International Tennis matches which started in Paris this week...
Part of the traditional Class Week festivities, the cruise will mix dancing, Baron Hugo's orchestra, beer and liguor with convenient moonlight. The committee has chartered a modern excursion ship, the S. S. Boston Belle (left), for the sail; Hyde expects the vessel to be filled to capacity...