Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers on whether the Princess should . be married in rationed austerity or regal state ("Life is too drab," it warned, "to pass up this chance for having fun"), the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, called a committee to arrange for an October wedding in Westminster Abbey, complete with open landaus, guards and 500 guests...
...Lion had flown in a crew of 100, with Producer-Director Albert Rogell and Stars Joan Leslie, James Craig and Jack Oakie. Railroad Tycoon Robert Young, Eagle Lion's chief stockholder, had arranged for the ranch scenes to be made at the nearby showplace of his friend the Duke of Windsor. But Eagle Lion concentrated on the Stampede...
Ellington Special (Columbia, 8 sides). Previously unissued Ellingtonia from the 1932-38 period, when the Duke had Barney Bigard on clarinet, Cootie Williams on trumpet and a better band than he has now. Recording: fair...
Then Ackland was invited to Duke, had such a pleasant time that he knocked North Carolina and Rollins out of his will entirely. He bequeathed to Duke not only the art museum, but also his mortal remains to be buried in the museum apse. With these affairs settled, in 1940 he died...
...after his death, Duke decided it did not want William Ackland's legacy because it had "too many strings attached." Duke already has the bodies of three benefactors-all tobacco-rich Dukes-buried in its Memorial Chapel...