Word: baronness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimable Ernest M. Frimbo is the Baron Munchausen of railroads, with a puff of Lucius Beebe and a chuff of Cervantes thrown in. Frimbo-the "world's greatest railroad buff'-is the brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that...
Perhaps the author gives himself away when he discusses the "points" of the railroad track at the end of the book. Watson must regularly jump off the train to switch these points so that it will follow the route of the sinister Baron's locomotive. Over and over again our chronicler writes, the points must be switched: "And the points--the points are all wrong!" One can't help but sense that he is pointing fun at the defects of the traditional detective novel...
Died. Athina Niarchos, 45, fifth wife of Greek Shipping Baron Stavros Niarchos and ex-spouse of his arch rival Aristotle Onassis; of an apparent heart attack; at the Niarchos town house in Paris. Blonde, willowy Tina had already been through two marriages (14 years with Onassis, ten with John Spencer-Churchill, now the Duke of Marlborough) before her sensational 1971 wedding to Niarchos: it was just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping...
...Alinsky's Diamond he quits his familiar landscape and sets out on a literary crusade nearly as unfortunate as the one he describes in this novel. In the beginning, Francis X. Murphy, from Aruba, Ohio, is rotting away in a French château. He has married a baron's daughter and ruined her family - indeed the whole village of Vardille-sur-Lac - by being caught doctoring the local wine. As penance, Murphy resolves to drink himself to death by swallowing all 12,000 unsalable bottles...
...called privileged boats, designated by yellow-and-orange flags with large black numbers in the center, are allowed to penetrate the Coast Guard defense. These yachts carried members of the various syndicates which had backed not only the two twelves racing that day, but also such vanquished boats as Baron Bic's French challenger, eliminated by the Cross, and the various American hopefuls--all beaten out by the Courageous for the chance to defend the Grand Auld Mug, as it is sometimes unfortunately known...