Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Theodore Ropp, visiting lecturer from Duke University, takes over the third in a series of informal discussions sponsored by the John Reed Society tonight at 8 o'clock in the Winthrop House Common Room when he leads a discussion of "Marx as a Social Scientist...
...last year, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was reported as saying that he might like to write a book. That was all the editors of LIFE needed to hear. They signed up the Duke for a series of three autobiographical articles on his youth and young manhood. The price was the author's (and LIFE'S) secret...
...Royal Pratfall. As the kings (5) and queens (6), ruling and retired, began to arrive, the royal family's eight-year austerity unbent. At a dance at Buckingham Palace, plump Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was dancing a conga with Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. She slipped, and stayed down, while Harry of Gloucester tried to tug her up amid a moment of embarrassed silence...
Louella Parsons "was dashing into the revolving door at the Waldorf and [the Duke & Duchess of Windsor] were dashing out with three dogs following them, laughing and apparently in high spirits...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, arriving in Manhattan for yet another vacation, were met by 50-odd reporters and cameramen, but refused to be stampeded. Said the Duke: the wedding-invitation thing was "purely personal and a family matter." The Duchess-in navy blue coachman suit with a compromise-length coat, a blue-and-brown turban, beige gloves, a mink fur piece, a pearl necklace -answered the other big question quite frankly. She thought that "people should wear skirts at the length most becoming...