Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back on the train 36 miles up the track and making an off-the-cuff speech to a crowd of 5,000 at Mexico, Mo. He left his special car for an automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants...
Polyna Stoska, Metropolitan Opera soprano, will star in a production of "The Gypsy Baron" by the Adams House Musical Society next November, according to William Perry '51, director of the organization...
People get "this lord & lady business" all mixed up, complained Baron Lawson of Beamish, 68, who was a coal miner at twelve and labor M.P. for 30 years before he was raised to the peerage last February. "People come along to me and say, 'Well, you see, my lord'; then they get to, 'It's this way, Mr. Lawson'; then it's, 'Tell me, John'; and in the end it's, 'See here, Jack...
Died. Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 41, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete, full-time amateur jockey and sportsman; of drowning; in Devonshire, England. Renowned for his awkward, wildly jouncing style, "Nitty" Mildmay at one time ranked fourth on the nation's list of jockeys...
Belgium's most famous modern artist, Baron James Ensor, was 89 when he died last year. He had crammed his house with souvenirs that ranged from a cigar butt once left there by Belgium's King Albert to a great painting done by Ensor himself 62 years ago: The Entry of Christ into Brussels...