Word: reginald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revival also proved, to those who had never known it, that Robin Hood's composer, the late Henry Louis Reginald de Koven, was a good deal more than a convenient rhyme for Beethoven - he was one of the deftest and most ingratiating composers outside the heavyweight class...
Pillowed Unease. Reginald de Koven did not need the money. A graduate of Oxford and a famous cotillion leader in the salons of Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head...
...Died. Reginald Langhorne (Pete) Brooks, 42, New York socialite, flying enthusiast, nephew of British M.P. Lady Nancy Astor; in his Miami Shores, Fla. home, presumably by suicide. In 1933 he married Aline Rhonie Bamberger, set off on a 17,000 mile aerial honeymoon flying his own plane, his bride another "because both liked to do the piloting." They were divorced...
...Reginald deKoven's romantic comic opera "Robin Hood," telling the age old legend of the gallant band of outlaws, has been successfully revived. The merry outlaws score the musical triumph of the evening as they rob the rich, give to the poor, and sing the merits of "Brown October...
...impressionist painter (TIME, May 29), journeyed from Bangor, Me. to Manhat tan to receive his $2,500 first prize in Pepsi-Cola's Portrait of America painting contest, first business-sponsored art competition to be judged by prominent artists and esthetes (including Rockwell Kent, Fernand Leger, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh, Max Weber). Peirce's prizewinner: a radiant Maine Swimming Hole. Peirce's comment: "I've already spent the money. ... I like Pepsi-Cola with rum in it.... Now maybe I'll even drink some straight...