Word: duke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan Duke (Bull Durham, Duke's Mixture, Lucky Strikes) stood upon a hill three miles west of Durham, N.C. and silently gazed out over the wooded acres about him. Finally he turned to his companion and said: "This is the place...
This week, on the site picked by blustery "Buck" Duke, the university which bears his name was inaugurating its new 48-year-old President Arthur Hollis Edens (Duke's third), and accepting congratulations on a hectic and happy first quarter-century...
Slickers & Roadsters. Benefactor Duke had put up an initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete...
...Buck Duke; who died in 1925, had thought of just about everything. Counting subsequent Duke endowment funds (and previous family gifts to Trinity), the Duke benefactions amounted, in time, to more than $50 million. The only thing that money couldn't buy overnight was a solid academic reputation...
Will Davis, formerly the possessor of the regular left tackle position, was secretly switched to running guard Wednesday in the eventuality that Houston could not play. He will start at that slot today. Doug Bradlee, will start at left tackle. To replace the injured Coan, bib Duke Sedgwick was converted from tackle to play right guard...