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	Doris Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doris Duke, (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress and philanthropist.
		Duke was raised in a Horace Trumbauer designed townhouse at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 78th Street by her widowed mother.
		Doris was the life beneficiary of two trusts created by her father in 1917 and 1924.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doris_Duke (987 words)

	Divas - The Site / Society Divas / Doris Duke
		Doris’ father Buck asked her to wait for him until he could return to earth in a reincarnated state.
		Duke's pet leopard was freely roaming the property at the time and when Duke saw that Nabors was bleeding she firmly urged him to move towards the house,
		Doris Duke died in her bed at Falcon Lair in October of 1993 at the age of eighty.
	www.divasthesite.com /Society_Divas/doris_duke_a.htm (1703 words)

	Fodors.com > Features > Sights > Doris Duke's Estate Opens to the Public (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Doris became skilled at conservation, advising and sometimes even working alongside her restoration experts, many of whom were based at her Somerville, New Jersey, estate.
		Duke's singular taste pops up in several rooms, including two of the highlights, the great hall and the music room (by several accounts she was a proficient jazz pianist who even composed a few tunes).
		Doris Duke was never charged with any crime - though she did pay Tirella's family a high-five-figure sum after a civil trial - but escapades like this one tend to overshadow her accomplishments.
	www.fodors.com /features/nfdisplay1.cfm?name=si/000628_si_doris (859 words)

	Doris Duke Biography - Biography.com
		Doris Duke was the only child of American tobacco baron, James Duke, and his wife, Nanaline.
		Doris Duke’s grandfather, Washington Duke, created a cartel with other local farmers at the end of the Civil War.
		Although Duke supported Cromwell’s political ambitions, her attempts to campaign for him were overshadowed by the media’s unwavering interest in Duke herself.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9542083 (564 words)

	Unveiling Doris Duke's Secret Garden
		All were enjoyed by the lifelong philanthropist Doris Duke who, when she died in 1993, left behind both wealth and controversy.
		Doris inherited most of her father's $300 million estate and at age 21, she established her first foundation, which became the Doris Duke Foundation.
		Doris Duke was a jazz pianist and composer, student of modern dance, and singer with a gospel choir in Nutley.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200308/30827p03.html (2244 words)

	Heiress Doris Duke's gems spark glittery pre-auction previews for elite buyers / The etiquette and science of buying ...
		Duke died under mysterious circumstances in 1993 at the age of 80 (speculation ran to a morphine overdose by her butler) and left an estate, worth $1.2 billion, that included homes with furniture and artwork in New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Hawaii.
		She learned that Duke's father, James Buchanan Duke, took his family's tobacco holdings and built the American Tobacco Co. into a trust that, by the early part of the last century, controlled 150 factories that accounted for half the cigarettes produced in the United States.
		Doris Duke was the only child of Duke and his second wife, Nanaline, and was taught the ropes of the business by her father before he died in 1925.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/20/DDGNN65URO1.DTL (1508 words)

	KODAK: Rising Stars - Doris Duke
		Duke was a socialite with an exotic life style who was constantly in search of her youth during her later years.
		Duke was both rich and beautiful in the early years, and everything Kemper did revolved around those focal points.
		Since Duke’s wardrobe always reflected her wealth, it had to be appropriate for the period and tastefully chic.
	www.kodak.com /US/en/motion/stars/duke.shtml (2967 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		DUKE, AS IT TURNED out, was a hands-on homeowner, climbing a ladder to a three-story scaffolding to clean tile murals in the courtyard, and restoring pieces of tile and glass on her dining room table, with Zen-like concentration, according to de Silva.
		In one of his last conversations with Duke, de Silva said he was about to install a piece of tile that would complete a design just outside the dining room, but Duke asked him to wait until she returned from her travels.
		Duke fell ill and died at her Beverly Hills home Falcon's Lair in October 1993, unleashing a torrent of tabloid scandal said to have involved a scheming doctor and gold-digging butler who were with her at the end.
	starbulletin.com /2002/11/03/features/story1.html (1957 words)

	Court TV Online - FAMOUS WILLS
		The court found that Duke's butler Bernard Lafferty was squandering her estate to support his "profligate life style" and that United States Trust Company failed to slow down Lafferty's spending.
		The DORIS DUKE FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW JERSEY FARMLAND AND FARM ANIMALS shall be authorized to lease this property at an annual rental of One Dollar ($1.00) to a college or university specializing in farming education.
		However, with respect to the DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, the maximum annual commissions to be paid to all Trustees of that wholly charitable trust shall be one-half (1/2) of the commissions provided by law in the State of New York from time to time for serving as Trustees of such trust.
	www.courttv.com /legaldocs/newsmakers/wills/duke.html (6683 words)

	Newport Notables
		Duke is the third owner (previous owners were Vanderbilt and William B. Leeds).
		Duke is not interrogated by police until few days later.
		Duke would claim Tirella had been driving, got out from the station wagon to open the estate side gates.
	www.redwoodlibrary.org /notables/duke.htm (683 words)

	Islamic Art at Doris Duke’s Shangri La
		After she died in 1993, her will stipulated that Shangri La would be operated by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, and opened to the public for the "promotion and study of Middle Eastern arts and cultures" [10].
		Doris Duke also commissioned works in Islamic styles for installation in her home from India, Morocco, Iran, and Hawaii.
		Among the lush vegetation selected by Miss Duke for use at Shangri La, there are many specimens the form and structure of which contribute to an appreciation of the relationships between the patterns of nature and the nature of patterns.
	www.mi.sanu.ac.yu /vismath/bier/index.html (1591 words)

	Dukenvironment Magazine -- Fall 2000
		The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, located in New York City, has renewed its support of the Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship Program at the Nicholas School of the Environment with a grant of $625, 000 for the next five years.
		Since the Program began at Duke in 1998, 19 students have received Doris Duke Environmental and Natural Resource Fellowships for study at the Nicholas School of the Environment.
		Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships are awarded to graduate students who show outstanding promise as future leaders in nonprofit or governmental conservation in the United States.
	www.env.duke.edu /dukenvironment/f00/nn-dorisduke.html (206 words)

	Doris Duke - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Deep soul diva Doris Duke was born Doris Curry in Sandersville, GA, in 1945.
		Duke spent the next several years in creative limbo, finally reuniting with Swamp Dogg for 1975's Mankind label release A Legend in Her Own Time -- their partnership ended acrimoniously prior to its release, however, and the record received scant attention.
		Duke next resurfaced on the British label Contempo with Woman, a much-acclaimed set released stateside on the Scepter imprint.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,425550,00.html (457 words)

	Duke Gardens In New Jersey
		In 1964, Doris Duke completed one of her life's ambitions when she opened a splendidly enchanted acre of land on her expansive Somerville estate for public visitation.
		Miss Duke remained personally involved with the gardens until the mid 1980s, and they remain a radiant parcel of the fabled heiress's legacy; sanctuary in a tumultuous world.
		Miss Duke's gift has been to make it abundantly clear that, while plants may seem to have a low profile in our society, they are, both biologically and culturally, the basis of life.
	www.njskylands.com /atdukgar.htm (1127 words)

	Heiress Doris Duke's Honolulu estate opens its gates
		On Wednesday, two weeks before what would have been Doris Duke's 90th birthday, her wish was realized when Shangri La opened for limited public tours and scholarly research.
		For Duke and her husband, James Cromwell, Hawaii was the final stop after months of travel.
		Duke used these chests to store her brushes, paints, solvents and tools for the repairs she did herself, Pope said.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/11/10/TR117995.DTL (1306 words)

	Doris Duke Award - University of Miami School of Medicine
		The funding from the BCRF fills a critical gap in her research, as the Doris Duke Foundation does not pay for animal research, which is vital to translating promising therapies on Src and estrogen inhibition from the lab into human trials.
		The prestigious Doris Duke Award recognizes outstanding mid-career physician-scientists who are applying the latest scientific advances to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure of disease, and enables them to support and mentor the next generation of physician-scientists conducting clinical research.
		The DDCF's activities are guided by the will of Doris Duke, who endowed the foundation with financial assets that totaled approximately $1.7 billion as of December 31, 2005.
	www.sylvester.org /health_pro/Doris_Duke_Award2006.asp (466 words)

	ECOTRAVEL - Newport: The Legacy of Doris Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Anyone who reads a biography of Doris Duke (1912-1993) before going to Newport is in for a pleasant surprise.
		Doris, his only daughter, educated by tutors and with only the occasional imported playmate, must have associated it with her lonely childhood.
		Duke created her first charitable foundation at age 21 and had always been a frequent if unpredictable and often anonymous giver to the needy who popped up on her screen.
	www.goodmoney.com /newport2.htm (1068 words)

	Columbia News ::: Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellows Begin Work at Columbia's Medical School
		As an undergraduate at Duke University, he co-founded the National Journal of Young Investigators, which provides a forum for young researchers to publish their findings.
		The Doris Duke Fellowship in clinical research, a national program based at seven medical schools across the United States, gives medical students the opportunity to spend a year away from medical school classes to focus on clinical research- the kind of research that develops and tests new cures and treatments for disease.
		Columbia was selected along with Washington University in St. Louis, the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Iowa, Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/08/dorisDuke.html (1186 words)

	Doris Duke Trust
		BAXTER LAURENCE DUKE, MABEL DUKE GOODALL, wife of H. Goodall, and PEARL DUKE BACHMANN, wife of Nathan L. Bachmann, the three children of Brodie Leonidas Duke, deceased, who was a half-brother of the party of the first part;
		Duke's death, this provision takes effect and by it there passes to The Doris Duke Trust
		, JEAN BELINSKY, Assistant Treasurer of The Doris Duke Trust, a Trust Established by James B. Duke by Indenture dated December 11, 1924, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the Indenture with the original thereof, and that the same is a true and correct copy of the original.
	www.duke-family.org /ddt.htm (1457 words)

	The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Environment
		Left a tobacco heiress as sole heir to her father Buck’s amassed fortune at the age of 12, Doris Duke grew up to depart this earth at age 80 as one of the world’s most eccentric divas.
		In whirlwind order, Chandi became Duke’s adopted daughter, had her adoption reversed by her loving Mom, was banished from the kingdom and was cut out of the will.
		In addition, Surrogate Preminger ruled that the fees to be paid by the Doris Duke estate to the firm of Cravath Swaine and Moore be reduced from $2.5-million to $2.2-million, while those to Willie Far and Gallagher be cut from $2-million to $900,000.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2002/main110402.htm (1247 words)

	Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program - UNC
		The Doris Duke Foundation is supporting medical students to spend a year learning clinical research.
		The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship Program for Medical Students provides for the first time a formal mechanism, and dedicated resources, for a year-long experience in patient-oriented research.
		The nature of the clinical research opportunities, didactics available through the GCRC, and the administrative structure of the program are described in detail in the section on the proposed training program.
	verne.med.unc.edu /doris_duke (1138 words)

	Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship
		Activities The activities of the Doris Duke Fellows are numerous, and consist of formal didactic coursework, a variety of formal lectures and symposia, including the monthly "Sucess Stories" lecture series.
		A listing of the current Doris Duke Fellows conference schedule can be found here.
		A listing of the current and past groups of University of Texas Southwestern Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellows and their projects can be found
	www.utsouthwestern.edu /utsw/cda/dept25793/files/126621.html (570 words)

	UMHS News - Doris Duke Award
		This is a highly competitive national award in which Ferrara was selected from a field of distinguished candidates in translational cancer research; he is one of only five scientists to receive the award this year.
		The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation funded only five such awards in four disease categories: cancer, AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, or sickle cell anemia and other blood disorders.
		The Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award is specifically intended to support physician-scientists who are recognized leaders in their fields and who have well-established clinical research programs with direct links to basic research.
	www.med.umich.edu /opm/newspage/2002/dukeaward.htm (534 words)

	The Sarah P. Duke Gardens
		Duke Gardens provides a place where people of all backgrounds and ages come for beauty, education, horticulture, solitude, discovery, study, renewal and inspiration.
		The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, often spoken of as the "Crown Jewel of Duke University," occupies 55 acres in the heart of the University's West Campus, adjacent to Duke University Medical Center.
		It is recognized as one of the premier public gardens in the United States, renowned both for landscape design and the quality of horticulture, each year attracting more than 300,000 visitors from all over the world.
	www.hr.duke.edu /dukegardens (123 words)

	DDCF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, wildlife conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.
		Explore Duke Farms, the 2,700-acre estate in New Jersey that Doris Duke's father created at the turn of the 20th century.
		Shangri La Visit Shangri La, where Doris Duke paired gorgeous Hawaiian landscapes with a large collection of Islamic art.
	www.ddcf.org (104 words)

	VIA Online: Doris Duke's Shangri La
		Duke bought five acres of oceanfront land near Diamond Head in Honolulu and built Shangri La for $1.4 million, making it the most expensive residential property in the territory.
		A partnership of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the museum begins a new, posthumous chapter in the life of the reclusive philanthropist.
		With architect Marion Sims Wyeth, Duke built her house and collection with a keen aesthetic.
	www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/shangri_la03.asp (294 words)

	Northern Arizona University-Doris Duke Foundation Funds NAU Conservation Fellows
		Flagstaff, AZ., May 30, 2006 — The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has selected Northern Arizona University to be one of eight host universities for the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows (DDCF) program.
		The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation strongly encourages participants in the Fellowship program to pursue a practice of inclusion, so that there will be more trained and dedicated professionals of all racial and ethnic origins in the conservation field in the future.
		"NAU's Center for Environmental Sciences and Education strongly supports the goals of the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows program to increase the diversity of tomorrow's conservation leaders and to train the next generation of practicing conservationists,” commented Rod Parnell, Professor of Geology and Chair of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Education.
	home.nau.edu /envsci/dorisduke.asp (630 words)

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