Word: duke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only plane that came was a twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...
When he touched down just at daybreak on a highway 15 miles west of Havana last week. Cuban police were waiting in ambush. As Duke gunned the plane to escape, the police riddled it with submachine gunfire and killed...
...Miracle Worker. William Gibson's dramatization of Helen Keller's childhood is memorable theater, largely because of the rousing performances of Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft...
...tapes flown from London to Canada and picked up in full from there by NBC (other networks ran only newscasts and, later, highlights), Commentator Dimbleby described the princess tensely awaiting the walk to the altar, reassuringly reminded his audience of "the comforting, tall, friendly and alert figure of the Duke of Edinburgh, on whose right arm she can rely." He sifted the guests ("What a tower of strength Lady Churchill is"), spoke as the Voice of England when the bride's coach left the Abbey: "All of us wish, as she goes back through London, that her ways...
...Miracle Worker. This moving show-about the deaf-mute child, Helen Keller-owes much to the unmatchable acting of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke...