Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reunion of Princeton's class of 1963 attracted as much buzzing attention as the pale, thin alumnus in a tan summer suit. Well-wishers from the class of 1948 stopped by to shake his hand, but conversation stopped short of his two days of Watergate testimony. Hugh ("Duke") Sloan Jr. was selling his house in Virginia and taking a job with the Budd Company, a manufacturer of transportation equipment in Philadelphia. "What was there to do?" he asked. "I would have just looked as if I was out there trying to slay dragons." Earlier in the spring, Sloan...
...someone I don't want." Anne also had precedent going for her. Her aunt, Princess Margaret, now 42, made the big break in 1960, when she wed Antony Armstrong-Jones, an untitled photographer. Since then, three of the Queen's cousins, Princess Alexandra, the Duke of Kent and Prince Richard of Gloucester, have also chosen spouses outside the nobility...
...Publish and be damned!" the Duke of Wellington scrawled across the letter of Harriette Wilson, a Mayfair call girl who threatened to blackmail him with her intimate memoirs. She published (in 1825) and he became Prime Minister (in 1828), recalls H. Montgomery Hyde, a former M.P. who studiously attempts in the Observer to place the current Lord Lambton-Lord Jellicoe sex scandals in historical per spective. Lloyd George was one of Britain's most notorious amorous Prime Ministers. But he was a man of stern principle, to wit: "Love is all right if you lose no time...
George Balanchine, L.H.D., choreographer. A master of motion and design. Bruce Catton, L.H.D., historian. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.M., musician. Elisabeth Luce Moore, LL.D., civic and educational leader...
...DUKE UNIVERSITY...