Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DUKE UNIVERSITY
Died. Tyree Glenn, 61, veteran jazz musician equally proficient on trombone and vibraphone; after a brief illness; in Englewood, N.J. A mainstay of Louis Armstrong's All-Stars, Glenn also played with such men as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter. His distinctive trombone style was once described as being "like a great blues singer, like Bill Broonzy in brass...
Died. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, 75, colossus of jazz for half a century (see Music...
...typical jazzmen's drinking contest of the Prohibition era. Through the night, Cornetist Rex Stewart and Trombonist Joe Nanton matched half pints of gin with each other-and a referee. By 9 a.m., the only one left standing was the referee, who happened to be Bandleader Duke Ellington. Recalling the incident last year in his autobiography Music is my Mistress, Ellington wrote, "I don't drink booze any more. I retired undefeated champ about 30 years...
...What did Nixon do when he was afraid he was going to lose his scholarship as a first-year law student at Duke...