Word: duke
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...nowadays to call attention to its cultural sophistication, but almost any attempt deserves applause. This month the Republic of Togo is issuing a series of postage stamps bearing the likenesses of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and a composer named Edward Kennedy Ellington. It is all very flattering to the Duke, but it would be a mistake for the people of Togo-or anywhere else-to think that this honor stamps him as a classic of the past. If anything, the Duke, at 67, is writing more jazz and writing it better than ever before, continually shattering and recasting the mold...
...Last week he recorded his new background music for a play, The Jaywalker, which will be performed at Coventry Cathedral in June. At the high school auditorium in Montclair, N.J., last week, Ellington and his band played his concert of sacred music, composed 18 months ago to demonstrate the Duke's belief that "every man prays in his own language." This week the Ellington troupe is off on a 30-city tour to play his latest showcases for his sidemen...
...Duke D.Fisher reported the cases at a session of the American College Health Association's annual meeting in the Mayflower Hotel here, in which 13 Harvard doctors and four Harvard nurses are presenting 13 papers. The four-day conference ends Friday...
...Duke Ellington and his orchestra will perform in "Sacred Concert" at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street. Proceeds will go to the Congregational and Episcopal Chaplaincies of Harvard and Radcliffe...
Klopfer, 36, of nearby Duke University, who had joined several other professors in a Chapel Hill restaurant demonstration. Two of the professors were beaten; all were arrested for criminal trespass (possible rap: two years). When Klop fer got a hung jury, Judge Raymond Mallard declared a mistrial. Subsequent ly, the "trespass" Supreme cases in Court light of tossed the out 1964 similar Civil Rights Act, which desegregated public accommodations. But Klopfer remained in jeopardy: 18 months after the indic ment, Judge Mallard allowed Solicitor Cooper to make use of a "nolle prosequi with leave," meaning the power to re instate...