Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tais. In Honolulu, tourists line up for blocks for his three shows a night at Duke Kahanamoku's 700-seat club. On the mainland, he has done sellout business from the Royal Box of Manhattan's Americana Hotel to Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove, where he holds the house record. His fans range from Lyndon Johnson's sister Rebekah Bobbitt, who attended a party welcoming him to New York, to Jacqueline Kennedy, who caught his first show at the Duke's on her visit to Hawaii last year, stayed right through to the 3 a.m. closing...
...shows at the Duke's remain his major interest. At 3 a.m., he says, "I tell everybody to go home and then I start unwinding, singing personal things for maybe 50 or 60 friends. When the sun comes up, I go home." Not always, of course, to his wife and six kids; he also keeps a bachelor's pad for further unwinding...
...sentimentality. To spell Judy in her nightly 90-minute appearances, there are song-and-dance interludes by her daughter Lorna, 14, and son Joey, 12. Neither has overpowering show-business potential, but the fans love them. Judy also gets a breather by coaxing such professionals in the audience as Duke Ellington or Bea Lillie onto the stage. Finally, and inevitably, comes Over the Rainbow. Some nights when she is too drained, it is more croaked than crooned. "Stay here and sing" someone cries amid the shrieks and bravos. "Don't ever go away!" Later, when she emerges from the stage...
Despite their nurture in the sophisticated international society of European royalty, Nicky and Alicky were innocents. They remained innocents to the end. Nicky could have been taken for the twin of his cousin George, Duke of York, who, as heir to the crown of Great Britain, had better luck; he was never worshiped and he died in bed. The young Nicky was fond of uniforms and noisy parades, generous with sapphire bracelets for a ballerina in St. Petersburg. There was nothing to warn him of the gruesome shape of things to come but a swipe on the scalp...
...naval commander in World War II, Prince Philip, 46, is predictably a demon in a dinghy. A brisk breeze rippled the sea as the duke sailed a Flying Fifteen sloop to the starting line off the Isle of Wight in his first skipperly confrontation with that not notably nautical upstart, Prince Charles, 18. But with the aid of a ringer crewman, Flying Fifteen Designer Uffa Fox, Charles finished a respectable 13th in the field of 22, chantied snatches of The Pirates of Penzance as he sailed past his dead-last daddy. "He's going to be a great helmsman...