Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland's Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim dropped in last week on a noted acquaintance. Adolf Hitler, at the Führer's field headquarters somewhere in Shangrila. In Berne and Berlin (but not in Helsinki) the meeting was billed as a return visit, for Hitler had dropped in last month on the Baron's 75th birthday party in Helsinki (TIME, June 15) to give him the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle and have a little talk. Last week's meeting, said Berlin, was "marked by hearty friendship." Hermann...
...Baron's journey and his growing collection of Nazi gewgaws did much to dampen rumors of an early Finnish-Russian peace which have been flying around United Nations capitals. The hopeful had been hoping that little Finland, a bit fed up with her German alliance, might make peace with Russia, her old enemy, if the United Nations would guarantee that Russia would be held perpetually in check after victory. Germany would not like that, and it was unlikely that the Baron and his host even mentioned it, in their little talks between amenities. It seemed more probable that they...
...John Maynard Keynes, unorthodox economist, New Deal adviser and, more recently, director of the Bank of England. Once cholerically opposed by classical financiers, he can now, as Baron Keynes, boost his theories in the House of Lords...
Hollywood wiseacres sometimes call the sonorous roll of an elite society known as the R.K.O. Alumni Association, for R.K.O has let more talent slip through its fingers than it has kept. Examples: David Selznick (now de facto head of United Artists), William Le Baron (now sparking 20th-century Fox), Sam Briskin (who has helped put Columbia into the big money), Joan Fontaine (whom R.K.O. once had for practically nothing a week—as Hollywood salaries go—but had to borrow back last year at $75,000 for Suspicion), Katharine Hepburn, Jack Oakie, ired Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
...Helsinki last week a surprise guest crashed a birthday party. It was Adolf Hitler. He appeared at a celebration in honor of Finland's hard-bitten Field Marshal, Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, now a well-preserved 75, who was probably less surprised than most of his countrymen...