Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lovely, charming." Said G.O.P. National Committee Chairman William Miller: "I think she's great." The Rockefellers also joined several hundred people for a charity affair aboard a ship that steamed outside the three-mile limit for an evening of gambling and dancing. Among those present were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, with whom the Rockefellers were photographed. The Duchess said she thought Happy was "gracious," and expressed the hope that "they will be very happy, as we are after 26 years of marriage." It was a nice, normal thought. But people kept comparing Rocky to that other...
...Cancer Society. With tickets sold at $125 to $750 apiece-and "gamblers" paid off in donated minks, diamonds, motor scooters and other goodies-the take was upwards of $123,000. But all-at-sea was the place to be for such socialites as Governor and Mrs. Rockefeller and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (see THE NATION). An eye-catcher even in that company was svelte Shipmate Gloria Lee Barrie, 35, whose husband George, 49, president of Rayette Inc. (beauty preparations), contributed the initial ante of $25,000 to make the evening's cruise possible...
...think Clay is so superduper, but he was clearly outclassed. Clay did a spot of sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
Chief Justice Earl Warren sounded an alarm in April. Speaking at Duke University, Warren warned against a spreading movement for adoption of three "states' rights" amendments to the U.S. Constitution that would...
...since the late Django Reinhardt, but no American company records his music, and his following here has been nourished strictly by reports from Paris. Oscar Peterson went to France and gave up a tour of Provence to spend six smoky nights in the Club St. Germain listening to Solal. Duke Ellington heard him in Paris and immediately pronounced him a soul brother. Jazz-Hot found in his music "a fireworks of musical refinement," and Downbeat passed the word along...