Word: dede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide prairies" and "tumble-down churches" and was intended to unify the program. Unfortunately, it only succeeded in flattening an evening that included such highly original talents as Joseph Spence, Ed Young and the Southern Fife And Drum Corps, Yomo Toro, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Billie and Dede Pierce, and the Lovin' Spoonful. The eagerly anticipated Chuck Berry failed to appear...
Durie's debut in 1934 occurred at an outdoor dance on the family estate, where, society columns recorded, there was "half a ton of gorgeous bouquets and corsages," and "Dede" was "radiant, with golden-brown hair, blue-green eyes and a sunny smile." At the age of 20, on April 3, 1937, in a Presbyterian ceremony, she married John Bersbach, grandson of Judge Theodore Brentano, onetime Minister to Hungary. They honeymooned in a yacht off Florida, tried to settle down in Lake Forest...
Having been elegantly introduced to Washington society fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 29), Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, captivating daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, last week bestrode the world. Occasion : Manhattan's glittering seventh annual International Debutante Ball, where Dede as official U.S. representative joined an Annapolis escort in a shoeless demonstration of a U.S. folk dance that De Rham never taught...
...Washington's party-of-the-week. Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, made her debut in the stately gold-and-white Washington headquarters of the Organization of American States. Upstairs, the elegant elders made their way through a champagne supper to the soothing accompaniment of society's tried-and-true Music Maker Meyer Davis-who wrote for the occasion a number that began "Dede loves to travel and dance all night . . ." Downstairs, under a sign reading DEDE'S PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, the belle of the ball and her peer group rattled...