Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems about recreational facilities. A secretarial student at San Diego's Kelsey-Jenney College, Laura Jo was invited on Charles' suggestion to attend retiring U.S. Ambassador Walter Annenberg's farewell party. He had to cancel out because of the death of his great-uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. Instead, Laura Jo visited Charles privately at Kensington Palace. Her mother professed astonishment: "Surely he must have lots of English girl friends." Chagrined mums round England took comfort from the fact that since Laura Jo is Roman Catholic, Charles is forbidden by law to marry her. Anyway...
Died. Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, 74, Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George V of England; after a long illness; in Northamptonshire, England. Educated at Sandhurst, the Duke interrupted his military career to assume princely duties after his eldest brother Edward, Duke of Windsor, gave up his throne in 1936 to marry American Divorcee Wallis Simpson. For his brother King George VI, Gloucester undertook a spate of ceremonial chores and overseas good-will missions; he also indulged his passion for riding, fox hunting and polo. After serving as a high-ranking liaison officer in World...
...truism that to put off making a decision is itself a decision. The parliamentary process is essentially a system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As T.H. White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour...
...onto the floor when the Senator is there, and get to a lot of parties." He added, "and Caroline wants to be treated like all the others." The bearer of another famous name will be interning this summer on Capitol Hill. John J. Sirica Jr., 21, a junior at Duke University-where President Nixon went to law school-is assigned to the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau as a copy boy and writer trainee. However, John Jr. will not be assigned to cover the U.S. district court where his father presides over several Watergate cases...
...except, perhaps, when he was backstage waiting to go on, looking weary from the day's travel, the bags under his eyes heavier than usual. Out in the spotlight, he was a new man, the fingers dancing merrily over the piano keys, the face lit up with joy. Duke Ellington once said, "My reward is hearing what I've done." It was everybody else's reward...