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...Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail to see, is a ten-foot statue, smack in front of the chapel, of baggy-trousered, clod-hoppered Buck Duke, holding a big cigar...
This was too much even for Duke's reverent students. When it was being built, they mocked its "vulgarity," stood a fraternity initiate on the empty pedestal for a whole day with a cigar in his hand. Duke's President William Preston Few had the statue put up anyway, proclaimed himself proud to "do honor to [Buck's] good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
...whose servant speaks well of him." In Service Entrance she speaks well of only two of the nine households in which she and Sergei worked. Mr. Pettyjohn (she names no real names), a socialite banker, was agreeable despite the fact that he tested his servants by scattering cigar ashes in out-of-the-way spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest of Service Entrance is a chronicle-somewhat humorless...
...musical charm and its flashy mounting by Robert Edmond Jones, had a plot which died of Southern molassitude. The Lyric Theatre next put on an evening of dancing by Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan-an uninspired Air and Variations to music by Bach; an arty cigar-store Indian Pocahontas (Elliott Carter Jr.); a rich, loamy piece of Americana, Billy the Kid (Aaron Copland...
Since Blue Hill's original "cigar-box" radiosonde recorder was invented by Karl O. Lange in 1936, dozens of ascents have been made in the stratosphere, as high as 79,000 feet. The "cigar-box" is drawn up into the heights by a large hydrogen balloon...