Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange idle but engaging chitchat. On the nation's TV sets, he could be seen siting before a picture tube of his own smoking incessantly while he commented on the guided tour that had been arranged in elaborate detail. Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Rocky Graziano, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Krishna Menon opened their homes to Murrow. And it was on this program that the dour newscaster was first observed to laugh over...
...member of the committee suggested that, as a consolation, Murray might be invited to do "the dog" with Mr. Diddley's companion, "The Duchess...
...Bernet Galleries last week staged a doubleheader, splitting sales of 130 modern art works with a $50-a-plate black-tie dinner. On hand were such luminaries as A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, Playwright Edward Albee, Architects Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe, Baron Heinrich von Thyssen, the Duchess of Leeds and all three Kennedy sisters. Nearly 3,000 potential buyers crammed four floors of the auction house with the spillover relegated to the limbo of nearby Finch College, where they followed the high-tension bidding and the hammerings-down on closed-circuit television...
...black father, that she rejected her father and his blackness, and that her agonizings have cost her her sanity and her hair (which has fallen out in clumps). The intricacies of this identity crisis are represented by her four selves: Patrice Lumumba, Jesus, Queen Victoria Regina, and the Duchess of Hapsburg, Except for one cruel scene between Sarah and her lover Raymond--a Jewish poet "who is very interested in Negroes"--the play is composed entirely of motion and monologue. Miss Teer's performance is magnetic, and this form permits her to hold the audience completely at times...
...maroon Rolls-Royce purred through the rainy evening to the London Clinic, and out stepped Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 38. She had come to end a 28-year estrangement between the royal family and the owner of a grey Rolls parked opposite: the Duchess of Windsor, 68. In a fourth-floor sitting room, the two women, both dressed in properly cheerful red, met by the chair of Edward, Duke of Windsor, 70, sitting up for the first time in three weeks after a series of eye operations. What was said in 25 minutes-at the first meeting since Edward...