Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always a disappointment to the late Duke of Windsor that his wife was not entitled to be addressed as Her Royal Highness. In accordance with King George VTs decision, the former Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, after her marriage to the man who had been King Edward VIM, had to be content with being a mere duchess. Now Patrick Montague-Smith, editor of Debrett's, the authoritative guide to the British aristocracy, says it was all a mistake. The rules of British heraldry permit a wife to take her title from her husband, and since Edward remained a Royal Highness...
Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...
...boards. This summer the New York Exchange chose a 20-member board divided equally between Wall Streeters and outsiders, mostly from corporations whose stocks are traded on the Big Board. In addition to senior executives of such giant companies as G.M., RCA and A.T.& T., the new people include Duke University Professor Juanita Kreps, the N.Y.S.E.'s first woman director, and outgoing Ambassador to Sweden Jerome H. Holland, the first black director. The exchanges also are selecting new bosses. Last week James Needham, an accountant and a former SEC commissioner, became chairman of the N.Y.S.E.; later this year, Paul...
...films, dressed up in a rabbit costume. With enthusiastic support from Laugh-ln's comedienne Sarah Kennedy, Wayne is impersonating the Easter bunny on next month's opening of Laugh-In. Acting the role of a rabbit did not come easily. When he arrived onstage, the Duke growled: "The first guy who snickers gets a broken face." After the ordeal was over, he remarked: "I felt pretty funny in that bunny suit, but it could have been worse. They could have dressed me up as a liberal...
Married. Patty Duke, 25, who nine years ago became the youngest actress to win an Academy Award (for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker); and John Astin, 42, who found greater success in television comedy (The Addams Family, I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster) than in movies (Viva Max, Candy); she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington...