Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Windsor was in London for a short visit, but the wedding to which he and the Duchess had not been invited was no longer a live issue; they now planned to find their...
...Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham a fee of 500 guineas...
...meeting of the football teams of Harvard and Virginia at Charlottesville this afternoon will mark the first occasion on which both colored and white players have participated in a collegiate football game in the "deep South." When Wallace Wade, longtime coach of North Carolina's Duke University, heard of the intention of the two schools to break through the historic barrier, he remarked that it was extremely fitting that the initial step should be taken by Harvard, the oldest and one of the most respected of the nation's universities, and Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson and dedicated...
...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...
...Duke Ellington Plays the Blues (Victor, 8 sides). Some good, but not the best, Ellington, with the Duke and Arranger Billy Strayhorn taking turns at the piano in Drawing Room Blues. Also Memphis Blues, Transblucency, Beale Street Blues and St. Louis Blues. Recording: fair...