Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When they asked Duke Ellington to predict the future of jazz as he foresaw it in the 1984 era of Big Brother he, speaking from the premature and unlamented passing away of smaller-but-still nasty McCarthy era, declared "Nobody's going to worry about whether it's jazz, symphony, boogie-woogie or folk music. The categories will be abolished...
...women in the Cabinet received much of their income as directors of several corporations: Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps, fees of $61,150 plus a $30,106 salary as a vice president and professor at Duke University; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris, fees of $40,535 and $55,725 as a Washington lawyer. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus earned the least: $33,000 as Governor of Idaho...
...heyday would customarily quaff a bottle of brandy a night at the 54-ft. circular bar of his original Manhattan bistro. "Drinkin', that's my way of prayin'," he would say. Shor was a star-struck sports fan, and his friends ranged from the Duke of Windsor to Joe DiMaggio, from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Mobster Frank Costello. Generous and impulsive, he once dropped more than $60,000 on a World Series bet, and would carry down-and-out customers on the cuff for months on end. Master of the boorish putdown, he called his famous...
Victorian Equation. The first episode opens in the early 1860s at the Duke of Omnium's annual garden party. Glencora M'Cluskie, an orphaned heiress, alarms her aunts by flirting with Burgo Fitzgerald, a young dissolute whom Trollope describes as the handsomest man in all England. The aunts thereupon pick up their skirts and march up to the old duke to present him with an inescapable fact: they have an eligible niece, while he has an eligible nephew-his heir, the aspiring politician Plantagenet Palliser. The duke sees the merit of the equation and gives his nephew...
...immensely successful Sporting News (circ. 330,000). Carl Felker never won a single share of stock in Sporting News, a failure that still weighs on Clay's mind. When Clay was eight, he started his own hectograph-printed newspaper (ads: 25? a shot). Soon after he graduated from Duke, he got a job at LIFE...