Word: barons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most it would have seemed a stroke of calamity; to Belgian Baron Léon Lambert it was an act of providence. One wintry day in 1956, as the youthful baron's plane touched down at Brussels' airport, his brother rushed to tell him that the marble-columned 18th century mansion that had housed the venerable Banque Lambert for three generations had burned to the ground. But the old building had long since become too cramped to contain the mushrooming Lambert operation, which in the past ten years has quintupled deposits to $203 million and added 26 branches...
...occupied by a new office building. Lambert agreed with city planners that the new palazzo should meld with the old-world architecture of the Palais Royale-yet he wanted a contemporary design. Finally, recalling his delight at seeing Manhattan's Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized the appearance of American banks with his glass and aluminum structure for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch twelve years ago. Today it is business as usual...
Written in incidental French camp style, The Jews reads a lot like the phone book: great cast of characters but not much plot. Such as it is, the story concerns the engagement of a beautiful Gentile and a wealthy young baron named Saül de Goldschild. This provides endless opportunities to discuss mixed marriages (like those of the Rothschilds), circumcision, Jews in the church, Jews and sex, Jews in finance (such as guess who), and Jews in politics (Peyrefitte maintains that the De Rothschilds have had "jockeys" in French Cabinets since World War I, the present incumbent being Premier...
...world"-and proving it by clocking 91.37 m.p.h. on the cinder-covered ice of Lake St. Clair. And it was not long before an enchanted U.S. public was thrilling to the exploits of a whole new set of heroes-Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, and the mysterious "Baron von Rickenbacher*-helmeted hotspurs who risked life and limb in the glorious pursuit of speed...
...SUITE (London). These high-spirited orchestral sketches are based on an opera celebrating the exploits of Háry János, the Magyar Baron Munchausen. The musical climax is Háry's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galánta, named for the little town where Kodály as a boy listened to the gypsies play...