Word: enthusiastic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Baron Robert de Rothschild, 66, who, with his cousin Baron Edouard de Rothschild, headed the Rothschild bank in Paris before the Nazi occupation; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lifelong racing enthusiast, he owned one of the most famous stables in prewar France, a private track, a polo field (where he played under the name M. Errer). Another property: Chateau Lafite-Roths-child, producer of one of the world's best red wines...
...groundwork for France's atheistic, postliberation fad of "existentialism." Protestants, Catholics and atheists who would like to sample the thought of the great Dane without reading all 20 translated volumes should welcome last week's publication of A Kierkegaard Anthology, edited by youthful (33) Kierkegaard- enthusiast Robert Bretall (Princeton University...
Staffers found him an enthusiast for elaborate planning. A handy man with a presentation chart, Logan added several fancy sidelines, e.g., a crew of picture-book specialists to create such books as Wallace Stegner's One Nation, the Look at America series...
...months before, an eager young jazz enthusiast named Michael Levin, editor of Down Beat, had dropped in at Sandy's, a bar-&-grill joint in Paterson, N.J. He found the barflies listening to the Mooney group in reverent silence, saw Proprietor Sandy shoo out paying customers who dared talk above the music. Levin listened for six hours, went completely overboard, and started a one-man Mooney campaign. He coaxed musicians, bandleaders and managers into making the trip to Paterson to hear "the most exciting musical unit in the U.S. today," devoted nine columns to Mooney in Down Beat, started...
...Yardlings, a missionary from the Divinity School, and a Milne enthusiast from the Green-Forest more widely known as Radcliffe gathered in Grays Hall yesterday afternoon to brew some Pooh which splattered on such diverse personalities as Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant dean of the College, and Glover Rueter '46, dean of a local humor society...