Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts to find a link between today's popular sounds and the music of the Louisiana bayou folk and the Negro spiritualists. Film units traveled from New York to New Orleans, Nashville and Detroit to tune in the Supremes, Tony Bennett, the Dave Clark Five, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington. Repeat...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). The 40-year career of Orson Welles is chronicled in two parts, beginning with his performance in Ashley Duke's Jew Süss at Dublin's Gate Theater at age 16, and taking him up to Hollywood in the Forties, including Citizen Kane...
...purely a private family ceremony in memory of Her Majesty my mother," the Duke of Windsor, 72, had explained politely to reporters. Yes and no. As 300 Londoners looked on along the Mall outside Marlborough House, Queen Elizabeth pulled a golden tassel drawing back the curtains over a small plaque on the garden wall: "Queen Mary, 1867-1953." Then she stood on the sidewalk for a few moments chatting with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood...
...figures, "if you want to stay in the mainstream." "I'll never retire," he vows, "until they just don't want me any more." Clearly, he will die with those unfillable size 11 boots on. "I want to continue to be a worthwhile citizen," rasps the Duke, "till the man upstairs knocks on the door...
Died. Billy Strayhorn, 51, jazz composer and Duke Ellington's strong-though all but invisible-right hand for all these years, who composed such hits as Chelsea Bridge, Johnny Come Lately, and Take the A Train, all of which were commonly identified with Ellington alone; of cancer; in Manhattan...