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...Professor Riley? Guesses began to fly: perhaps he was Durham University's eminent Chemist Harry Lister Riley (no; reporters found him vacationing in Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
...Duke of Durham...
...Design" and good old "Buck" Duke (TIME, June 26, p. 55), brings up some of the Duke stories which cover the Carolinas like Buck Duke's Southern hydroelectric power lines and are almost as numerous throughout the South as 5? bags of Duke's Mixture and Bull Durham smoking tobacco...
...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 of Durham...
Except for Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. (assets $739,383) all N. N. B. A. banks are in the South. Largest is the Mechanics & Farmers Bank of Durham, N. C. (assets $1,354,000). Oldest is the Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville (assets $584,000), founded...