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With a hard game in prospect, but with hopes for victory, the Harvard basketball squad leaves Boston this noon for Durham. New Hampshire, where it will encounter the state University quintet tonight. Twelve players led by Coach E. A. Wachter and Captain D. J. O'Connell '29 are making the trip...
Died. The Earl of Durham, 74, famed English turfman, huntsman, landowner (30,000 acres); of influenza; in his ancestral Lambton Castle, Durham, England. He had held his title only five months, having succeeded his twin brother...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
...southeast's idea of itself is increasingly industrial and commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
...southern tour will reach-Duke University at Durham, North Carolina University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. North Carolina: North Carolina State College, at Raleigh, North Carolina: Emory University at Atlanta, Gerogia...