Word: baronets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp-eyed Britons, poring over copies of Burke's Peerage and Debrett's, noted an odd contradiction in the listing for Sir Robert Dillon, 44, eighth Baronet, of Lismullen in Ireland. Burke's indicated that Sir Robert was heirless, and his nearest blood relative was a spinster sister, Laura Maude Dillon, 43. Debrett's took a rosier view and bold-faced the name of a younger brother, Dr. Laurence Michael Dillon, to signify that he was the heir to the baronetcy...
What makes Sagan sprint is the realization that metropolitan dailies today are leaving an ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder...
...hand, Art Dealer Carritt was certain. Other experts were called in, agreed. The painting, which proved to be in almost perfect condition, was estimated to be worth $560,000. Asked if he intended to sell, Sir Edmund, possessor not only of a Dürer but of a title (Baronet of Redgrave) that goes back to the first Elizabeth, snapped, "Definitely not. We are letting far too many of this sort of thing leave the country...
...Campbell, a dashing figure who, as a general's aide-de-camp, had three horses shot out from under him at the Peninsular battle of Talavera. In later years the young officer became a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county of Argyll, in 1831 was created first baronet of Barcalvine and Glenure. There is little doubt that he liked his early portrait. It remained in the family for more than 100 years, was bought early this year by San Francisco Art Patrons Roscoe and Margaret Oakes and included in their most recent gift-eight oils now hanging...
Although he has always moved mysteriously in international circles, Sir William Wiseman, tenth baronet of Ulster, partner in Manhattan's Kuhn, Loeb & Co., has never made much of a public splash. He graduated from Cambridge, was gassed at Ypres, studied espionage at Scotland Yard, at 30 was the second most powerful Briton in the U.S., unofficial head of His Majesty's World War I secret service in the U.S. and Woodrow Wilson's "confidential Englishman." Afterward he joined Kuhn, Loeb, the second greatest U.S. private banking house (the first: J. P. Morgan & Co.), but kept his British...