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...years ago, Doris Duke-"Dee-Dee" to her intimates-resurrected an old bronze statue of a bull. It had been in one of Dee-Dee's barns.She had it dragged out and set up among the fauns and iron deer on her Somerville, N.J. estate. It was a sentimental gesture. The bull was the metal incarnation of the animal on the old Bull Durham tobacco label-almost the coat-of-arms of Dee-Dee's father, James Buchanan Duke, founder of the American Tobacco Co., who had died in 1925, leaving Dee-Dee $53 million...
...Dee-Dee was twelve then, and suddenly just about the richest girl in the world. She was gingerly brought up on the 2,500-acre Somerville estate. The most fun she had was with her pony, Patsy. She loved Patsy, and when the pony died she hung a sign on the empty stall: "Ponies do have souls and Patsy most...
Jimmy. At 22, Dee-Dee married James Henry Roberts Cromwell. Jimmy was different from the rest of the boys. Jimmy was 38 and more mature. He had already been married once. His stepfather was Edward T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia socialite and financier. Jimmy had advanced ideas. He had thought up a "Synchronization Theory" which had something to do with the flow of money and goods. He also had ideas on birth control, libel laws, sterilization of defectives, boxing and politics...
...Dee-Dee built a dream house for herself and Jimmy in Hawaii. It was a Morocco-Persian mansion with two stone camels at the doorway, a swimming pool with a hydraulic-elevator springboard. Her "ShangriLa" cost $1,000,000. She also contributed $50,000 to the Democrats (Jimmy's political party), and when Jimmy was made U.S. Minister to Canada, she went along. She was a tall, shy, honey-blonde girl with a solemn face. Sometimes she entertained her friends by tap-dancing...
...same way for the same reason. Witches might be good or bad (i.e., they might practice white or black magic, or a mixture of both), but it never occurred even to intelligent Europeans as late as Shakespeare's day to question their existence. The great Elizabethan savant, Dr. Dee, was as much on the alert for phony witchery as the Roman Catholic Church is for phony miracles, but Dr. Dee used "magic" (by royal request) to divine the most propitious day for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and spent most of his life peering into a crystal ball...