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Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...
...Duke, the University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt, and Davidson have been given top priority for organizational work this Fall...
...nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned up his trousers to keep them...
...Duke Ellington and his orchestra will appear at the Union Methodist Church in Boston at 3:15 p.m. tonight to present a "sacred concert...
Back from a three-week tour of Viet Nam in preparation for filming The Green Berets, John Wayne, 59, said he found today's G.I.s "more on the ball than they were in their fathers' war." Explained the Duke: "Maybe it's because the guys I met in New Guinea during the last war had been there a long time and didn't have enough ammunition or food. Morale was bad. These boys in Viet Nam know that they will have only a year's tour of duty, and they're out there...