Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edition of TIME, you have an article entitled "The Duke's Heaven," in which I figure quite prominently. ... I would like to correct one great error. . . . The idea of turning Del Monte into a postgraduate school for naval officers originated entirely with the naval authorities and the matter came to me without any direct or indirect promotion. Incidentally, it is not a "Little Annapolis." Del Monte was selected only after the most careful survey of innumerable sites in various parts of the country...
Harlow, who spent the summer in the Pecones of Pennsylvania, will arrive by way of the Duke University hospital, where he received a pre-season cheekup on a high blood pressure allment. He is expected to make his first Varsity out in the squad at the end of the second week...
...trains or big names. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 Ibs.), balding Harold Stassen just got into his 1946 Ford sedan and drove from South St. Paul to Lake Michigan's Sturgeon Bay, with his wife, Esther, his children, Glen, u, and Kathleen, 5, and the family dog, Duke. At the end of the six-hour, 321-mile trip, he lugged suitcases into a small rented cottage, changed into faded Navy khaki and settled down for two weeks of loafing, swimming, reading and old-fashioned porch-sitting...
...party for some of his German friends; he called them "the cream of what is left of German society." The men in black & white, the bejewelled women in long backless gowns were busy dazzling each other and particularly their British host, with Almanack de Gotha chatter about Prince this, Duke that and their big estates...
...Lord Duke. As if in a nostalgic effort to recapture the glorious days of imperial and Tory Britain, when life was ordered and largely predictable, his listeners were neatly sorted on hierarchical lines. With Churchill on the speaker's platform was the tenth in the line of the victor of Blenheim ("My Lord Duke" Churchill called him), cool, calm and ruddy. Beside him sat his Duchess, magnificently hatted with two feathers sweeping from under a black brim...