Word: davenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after A Bell for Adano, was Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, which will have sold over 60,000 copies in 1944 alone, although it was first published 21 years ago. He points out as remarkable, and rightly so, total printings of 30,000 copies for Russell Daven port's My Country. I wonder if he has heard of Walter Benton's This Is My Beloved, which was published in February 1943 and has sold in 1944 approximately 22,000. Then don't you think TIME might have mentioned Rikky Harrison's Look at the World...
...fashioned pent house apartment of Mrs. Hugh Bullock in Manhattan for the most trying occasion in the literary life - a poetry reading. They were publishers, editors, critics, poets, a few patrons of poetry. They heard the first formal reading of the first poem in many years by Russell Wheeler Daven port, 45, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, best known as the close associate of the late Wendell Willkie in the Presidential campaign of 1940. Davenport began...
Boss Penrose, who came from Good Time Buck Devlin's Eighth Ward, was that handsome that doors opened of them selves when he passed a lady's house (Mr. Devlin's own words-from Walter Daven port's Power and Glory). Penrose also had a simple credo: "The people will stand anything from a politician who refrains from annoying them." Boss Penrose, one of whose shoes was laced with a corset-string the day he met Matt Quay, despised personal graft as cheap pocket-picking, lived mostly for the pleasures of the flesh...