Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the royal family. Characteristically, his diary entries during this period bustle with provocative footnotes to history. For example, his interview with the late Queen Mary, who discussed the relations between her husband George and his sons: "She said that the real difficulty had been with the Duke of Windsor and never with 'the present King' [George VI], who always got on well with his father. She added that 'the present King' had been appalled when he succeeded. 'He was devoted to his brother and the whole abdication crisis made him miserable. He sobbed...
...cricketers were all foreign-born, hailing from more logical places like Ireland, Barbados, Australia and Ceylon. Warned London's Evening News: "It would be a gross understatement to say they know something of the game." Indeed, in their first three matches, the Americans looked impressive. They outscored the Duke of Norfolk's team 178-117 before time ran out (thereby making the match officially a draw), lost by only 15 runs to a squad called the Free Foresters, and beat the Hertfordshire county team by 35 runs...
...board of directors stiff-upper-lipped it as "quite inadequate." And a major Gallaher shareholder that up to now had been satisfied with the status quo was shaken into action. American Tobacco has been a part of the market ever since 1901 when Founder James B. ("Buck") Duke stomped into London and tried to move into the industry. To keep him out, 13 British companies amalgamated into Imperial Tobacco, which is now Britain's largest tobacco company. Imperial later bought a substantial share of Gallaher. American nevertheless ended up with intercontinental marketing agreements and eventually 12.9% interest in Gallaher...
...gives the book its real fascination is its palpable authenticity. Behrman has collected people and experiences like a connoisseur. He has known the rich, the beautiful and the talented, and he appears to have put them into his novel as vividly and intimately as in a diary. Freud, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arnold Schoenberg and Irving Thalberg make cameo appearances. Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Max Reinhardt, and several society beauties of the '30s are only slightly disguised. The author mocks, but he also burnishes his characters with an élan found all too rarely in current...
...inched close to the 250-lb. mark, the lady decided the time had come for action, even though she knew the "Fat Farm," as she called it, would be no Fun City. So Mrs. Richard J. Hughes, 46, wife of the New Jersey Governor, checked into Kempner clinic at Duke University Medical Center for a course in dieting. The pounds didn't melt away, and at times she had to resort to fasting to hurry the process along. Yet today, 18 weeks and 80 lbs. lighter, Mrs. Hughes is down to size 16. The magic formula: medication, a bland...