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...please." Perfection was only a horse, but in Belvoir Castle, it might have seemed to young Diana Manners that the Seventh Duke of Rutland had only to ring his little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows her medals except for the familiarity with which she evokes the world of the pre-1914 British aristocracy. It was the era that...
...rival Second Army.) Lodge met Eisenhower, was an admirer from then on; he started publicly plugging Ike for President as far back as 1950. In November 1951, before General Eisenhower agreed to run, the three-D Ikemen (New York's Governor Tom Dewey, Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, Kansas' ex-Senator Harry Darby) tabbed Lodge to manage the Ike campaign for the nomination...
...hands on money. He inherited $200,000 from his mother, spent part of it studying psychology under Sigmund Freud in Vienna, playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Yale, law at George Washington University. In 1926 he joined a top Washington law firm (now Davies, Richberg, Tydings, Landa & Duff), was soon making fat fees for defending prominent men, e.g., Alexander de Seversky (for his criticism of Air Force procurement...
Thirty-five students will graduate magna cum laude, Deborah C. Duff, Mrs. Sarah Millis McCoy, and Jacqueline Wei will receive their degrees magna cum laude with highest honors. Seventy other seniors will be granted the Bachelor of Arts, cum laude...
Newly-elected members are: Mrs. Marian W. Chaffey, Carmel, Calif.; Nancy B. Curtis, New Haven, Conn.; Margaret Dalton, Cambridge; Deborah Duff, Washington, D.C.; Marion Dusser de Barrenne, Cambridge; Elaine I. Hoffman, Newton Centre; Mrs. Sylvia M. Hubbard, Toronto...