Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assembled in Stockholm's hauntingly Gothic cathedral were four reigning monarchs (Belgium's King Baudouin, Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean and Norway's King Olav V), ex-King Constantine of Greece and ex-Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, eight princes, ten princesses and other assorted nobility...
...could make superb use of any idea or thing. At Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, he put "secular saints" in the stained-glass windows: Albert Einstein, John Glenn, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber and others. Early in his episcopate he read that Duke Ellington had composed a sacred concert for jazz, and promptly arranged for the Duke to give its world premiere at the cathedral. Nobody asked Ellington to join any memorial service to the bishop. But when the Duke heard there would be such a gathering at St. Clement's Church in Manhattan, he came...
...former Congressman Kenneth Gray of Illinois, Ray's ex-boss. Gravel denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Ray preened in a strange celebrity status that made her seem a combination of Virginia Hill and Typhoid Mary. She attracted stares and journalists at every stop. But when she showed up at Duke Zeibert's last week, at least 20 men, by one count, headed toward the restaurant's back door, apparently dreading signs of recognition...
Juanita Kreps, LL.D., vice president of Duke University...
...affair between Margaret Housen, 35, a secretary in Washington, D.C., and Angier St. George Biddle Duke, son of Angier Biddle Duke, former U.S. ambassador to Spain and Denmark, would hardly have ranked as a celebrated coupling had not Housen contracted gonorrhea. When doctors told Housen that she probably could not have children as a result, she sued Duke in his home state of Wyoming. Housen's lawyer, Gerry Spence of Casper, cites his client's courage: "Imagine having the guts to come to a little Wyoming courtroom and cut away the shame and the stigma of the disease...