Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she died in 1960 at the age of 72, Tobacco Heiress Mary Duke Biddle left an estate of $60.6 million to be divided between her family and various charities. Last week in New York's Westchester County Surrogate Court, her lawyers filed papers stating that the fortune has now dwindled by 58%, with $34.6 million going to pay off inheritance taxes, and $1,100,000 for legal and executor fees...
...time. Madrid is going crazy"). Favored this year by the rich and beautiful people: Sotogrande del Guadiaro on the Costa del Sol, a region that boasts 3,200 acres overlooking the Rock of Gibraltar, several fine hotels, two golf courses and fine swimming. Equally In: nearby Marbella (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will be there...
...parade onto the runway wearing a silk gown split up the back to reveal its matching pants. "I do not want to show my bottom," snapped Winnie's granddaughter as photographers began shooting the view from the stern. Later, things got even worse when the prankish Duke of Bedford, the show's announcer, peeled off the detachable lower swath of a mink coat Arabella was modeling, leaving her in a sort of mini-fur. "I do not want to be a model!" she cried, bursting into tears. But by afternoon she had calmed down, and swept through...
Ellington says that his greatest competition today is the Duke Ellington of 25 years ago. In those days, his raw, rich musical language had already established him as a great innovator. His audiences today tend to expect to hear the same Ellington, but he will have none of that. "We could've gone on for 50 years," he says, "just playing the old things and saying, This is our noise, baby.' But it's a form of condescension, the worst of all artistic offenses...
...Jones continued to rule as the arbiter of taste-until, with the Puritan revolution, he probably landed in prison and eventually an obscure grave. Plentiful evidence of his flamboyant wit and stagecraft can be seen in an exhibit of 119 drawings of stage sets, props and costumes from the Duke of Devon shire's collection at Chatsworth, currently on display at Washington's National Gallery...