Word: dauphin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After attending four colleges (Wake Forest, Holly Spring, Carson-Newman, University of North Carolina), Blanford Dougherty went back to Boone and with his brother, Dauphin Discoe, built a two-room cabin, there in 1900, they opened the Watauga Academy. Today, thanks to homespun Dr. Dougherty's political skill, his school has grown to be the Appalachian State Teachers College, one of the South's best, with nearly 1,000 students and a $2,500,000 plant. Dr. Dougherty, president of the college, is a power in the State. At 69, he has lost none of his sharpness, none...
...parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...