Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Progressive Education. In Baton Rouge, Stanford and Loyola Bardwell, who named their first four children Stanford Jr., Tulane, Duke and Harvard, named their fifth Princeton...
...called a handful of others, all former Government administrators: Dr. Calvin Hoover, dean of the Graduate School of Duke University; Richard Bissell, professor of economics at M.I.T.; Dr. Edward Mason, professor of economics at Harvard; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, onetime president of the Export-Import Bank. They said they would rally around. That was Wednesday morning. Bellboys were bringing so many telegrams to Hoffman's ninth floor Statler suite, costing Hoffman so many quarter tips, that he finally ordered all wires held at the desk until they could be brought up in bundles...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor finally had a U.S. summer home all to themselves-a French provincial-chateau-style affair in Locust Valley, L.I., right next to a golf course. They sublet it for two months. Up from the South, they moved in, then packed their bags for a week in Washington and a houseparty with Railroader Robert R. Young at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...
...Duchess of Sutherland, whose 59-year-old duke is one of England's great landowners, did a little job of work just before she sailed home from Manhattan. The shapely duchess did some modeling for a forthcoming cold-cream...
...Palm Beach, Fla., the Duke of Windsor also toyed with a new pursuit. It was too early yet to guess at his future. He pitched the first ball in the annual Society Softball Game-and it turned out he had never thrown one before. After a little instruction he managed to get it clear to the plate...