Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audiences; Ain't Misbehavin', a set of Fats Waller numbers, won the Tony for Best Musical of 1978 and just opened in Boston; and last week this hardy genre of theater made it to the Loeb Mainstage in the form of Ellington at Eight, a collection of Duke Ellington classics. It shivered a bit in the Loeb's vasty spaces, but perked up its head and boldly smiled on. Despite occasional lapses in atmosphere, the performers' vigor and old-favorite songs were sure to lift the audience's spirits...
...ever I cease to love, if ever I cease to love," goes the lighthearted theme song of New Orleans' Mardi Gras, "may the Grand Duke Alexis ride a buffalo in Texas, if ever I cease to love." Alas for the Lord of Misrule and his merry minions. With most of the carnival festivities canceled last week because of a protracted police strike, many New Orleanians have no love in their hearts, at least not the special kind that flowers during Mardi Gras. "The police are mad. The city is mad. The taxi drivers are mad. Everybody is mad," said...
DIED. Robert George Grosvenor, 68, fifth Duke of Westminster and patriarch of a family whose wealth probably ranks second in Great Britain only to the Queen's; of emphysema; at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. A descendant of William the Conqueror, Grosvenor served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and in the House of Commons from 1955 to 1964 before inheriting the dukedom from his older brother in 1967. Nine years later he passed along to his son Gerald...
Anywhere but the Atlantic Coast Conference, the game would have been dismissed as a mismatch: Duke, sixth-ranked basketball team in the nation and tied for the conference lead, vs. Clemson, wallowing near the bottom of the A.C.C. standings. Well, it was a mismatch -Clemson beat Duke last week by 21 points. Up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina clucked knowingly. A couple of weeks before, the Tarheels had taken their No. 2 national ranking to Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum and been ambushed...
North Carolina State won the N.C.A.A. title in 1974, but A.C.C. partisans were sorely disappointed by the second-place finishes of Duke last year and North Carolina in 1977. Any A.C.C. fan will tell you that if their teams did not get so exhausted beating the competition back home, they would conquer the country every year. Just ask anyone between Maryland and South Carolina...