Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. The Duke of Leinster, 83, premier peer of Ireland, who in his youth squandered his claim to one of Britain's largest fortunes, went bankrupt three times and lived out his last days, according to his fourth wife, "distraught, depressed and utterly penniless"; in a cramped two-room London apartment...
...numbers, they saturated the small arena. To add to the sense of journalistic overkill, the press itself was often dogged by three sets of political scientists and dozens of students with notebooks, cameras and tape recorders, all bent on examining-as one consortium of professors from Yale, M.I.T. and Duke has it-whether "the media is the new political power broker...
...built several centuries ago by a certain Ernest of Bavaria. Who was he? A count, a duke, a prince, an emperor? It doesn't matter much...
...certain public events, his passion fro privacy still makes J.D. Salinger look gregarious. He loathes interviews, rarely makes speeches, nor wil he sit still for photographs. Once he hid in his bathroom for four hours to avoid a Baltimore Sun reporter. American Somoa recently asked to use Uncle Duke as part of a tourism promotion, but Trudeau steadfastly refuses to license his characters for use in advertising campaigns or on trinkets-a proposition that could double his six-figure annual gross from the strip. He will, however, allow Ginny's face to appear on T-shirts and bumber stickers...
Died. Willis ("Ray") Nance, 62, a versatile musician who growled on the trumpet and wailed jazz on the violin for 23 years with Duke Ellington's band; after a long illness; in Manhattan...