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There is one that Buck Duke used to tell on himself, of the time Mrs. Duke was dragging him through Europe into art galleries, cathedrals, etc., and while visiting Canterbury Cathedral, Buck felt tired. He seated himself in the nearest pew which happened to be the choir stalls. Quickly a sexton came up and asked if he would move for he was in a stall reserved for nobility. Buck Duke is reported to have asked the sexton, "Who in the hell do you think I am?" The sexton politely backed off and asked "Who, sir?" and Buck answered "Duke...
...cruise with the fleet, he went from the train that brought him from Charleston, S. C., to the White House to put on his cutaway. Then with his wife, mother, daughter-in-law Betsey (Mrs. Jimmy) and Naval Aide Dan J. Callaghan he went to his front-row pew in St. John's Church, where Rector Oliver J. Hart III conducted a special anniversary service and prayed...
Backed by the money of Oilman Joseph Newton Pew, Publisher Patterson made over his entire magazine, high-pressured circulation from 1,000,000 to 1,350,000, advertising revenue from $300,000 to $1,150,000. All he lacked to be a huge success were the lucrative cosmetic, baby-food and home appliance ads, which instead of flocking to Farm Journal remained with The Farmer's Wife of St. Paul (circ. 1,170,000), only magazine written exclusively for farm women...
...Widower James's dark-tressed, 22-year-old daughter Dorothy began her duties as Pennsylvania's First Lady. To the inaugural ball in magnificent Zembo Mosque thronged Pennsylvania's very fattest cats: ex-Senator Joseph L. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association ; Oilman Joseph N. Pew Jr.; Publisher Moses Annenberg (who drank Coca-Colas with a pretty legislative secretary); John M. Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly in the Pew family...
With respect to dictatory autocracy and New Deal democracy, it is not always clear where "the parson leaves off and the pew-rent begins" ; I beg to contribute for current circulation: "ipsedictatorial" (or-"dictatory") and "demautocratic" (or -"cracy...