Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doris Duke Cromwell had a new job too. The richest-blonde-in-the-world, who did some fitful corresponding for the Hearst papers a couple of years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945), was hired by opulent Harper's Bazaar to work in its Paris bureau. Her reportorial specialty: fine feathers. In a busy week, Heiress Doris was also chosen by M. Louis, a hairdresser of high principles, as one of the Ten Worst-Tressed Ladies in America. Sniffed Louis: "It seems as though all she does to her hair is comb...
Sold by the beauteous Duchess of Kent: household special-effects accumulated by the late Duke. The Duchess, now in smaller quarters, has no room for them. At auction in London, a Sèvres china dessert service brought ?609, a pair of porcelain vases ?1,260, a walnut settee ?1,785. Total receipts...
Most controversial subject at the Cleveland meeting: sympathectomy-cutting the "sympathetic" nerves to reduce high blood pressure. Dr. Keith Grimson of Duke University, who sometimes cuts out the entire sympathetic nervous system, said that it helped in most of his cases and probably would be effective for a third of all hypertensive patients. Others thought that it seldom did much permanent good...
Dick Harlow will not make his appearance till the end of the week, when he is expected back from the Duke University Hospital at Durham, North Carolina, where his treatments for high blood pressure have been reported as successful...
...Varsity line-up: Foils--Van Roosen, Raney, Barricolli, Hubbard; Epee--Johnson, Duke, Masterson; Saber--Ellis, Edolman...