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...Scheduled a vacation to start April 12, when he will fly to Charleston, S.C. to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from The Citadel, a military college headed by Old Soldier Mark Clark. From Charleston he will fly on to Augusta, where he hopes to stay until April 24 or 25, getting in a few golf rounds with his alternate choices to win the Masters Tournament, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead...
...Last year he came to the aid of J. Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A year ago, on the eve of his 81st birthday, Lawyer Davis complained that he was getting old: "Most of the crowd I worked with are gone." Last week in Charleston, S.C., John W. Davis lost a bout with pneumonia, and rejoined the old crowd.* It was just three weeks before his (and Thomas Jefferson's) birthday...
Died. John William Davis, 81, dean of U.S. corporation and constitutional lawyers and onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President; of pneumonia; in Charleston, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
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Sheltering Smoke. Speaking last week to the Charleston (W. Va.) chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Major General William M. Creasy of the Army Chemical Corps described a partial measure of atomic defense. One way to reduce casualties from nuclear explosions, he said, is to cover each threatened city with a blanket of dense, black smoke...