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To: Locomotive Breath

LOL. "Bucky" Waters, "Buck" Duke. I know the story of "Buck" Duke and his "Poor Little Rich Girl" daughter Doris. http://www.lib.duke.edu/archives/history/james_b_duke.html


231 posted on 04/23/2006 3:22:16 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: abb

Yep - knew this too. Was made into a so so movie staring Lauren Bacall in the title role. She died old, alone and bitter with everyone trying to take advantage of her. I never knew Furman was part of the Duke Endowment until I took my son there to look at the campus and discovered they had just finished the "Duke Library".

Before this internet thingy we oldsters had to read books. Here's a good one I once read about the origins of Duke

"The Dukes of Durham"
Robert Durden

http://www.gothicbookshop.duke.edu/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=082230743X


244 posted on 04/23/2006 3:35:43 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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