Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...101st Airborne's men there were two surprises: their regular commander, tall, 43-year-old Major General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, had ridden into Bastogne with the relief outfit (he had been in the U.S. for consultation, had reached the front from Washington in less than two days); the Screaming Eagles were being relieved while there were still more Krauts around to kill...
...suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless. But 1944 also witnessed the emergence of a new popular poet of high quality. Russell Davenport's My Country, a simple, eloquent, sometimes patriotically overcharged paean to American destiny. ran up the astonishing (for poetry) printing total of 30,000 copies...
...Bishop of Davenport, Iowa: Monsignor Ralph Leo Hayes, onetime Bishop of Helena. Mont., later rector of Rome's North American College (theological school for U.S. priests) until its closing...
...Liberal Party splinter, controlled by Labor Leader David Dubinsky, and attracting such independent Republicans as Russell Davenport, such New Dealers as Leon Henderson, polled 319,085 votes (nearly all in New York City) for Roosevelt. Hillman's A.L.P. polled 483,371. These two totals, added to the Democrats' 2,461,771, were enough to beat Tom Dewey's 2,952,867 straight G.O.P. vote in crucial New York State...
...Author. Born in South Bethlehem, Pa., the son of a vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport wrote poetry for ten years before entering journalism, wrote none for 14 years afterwards. He went to Thacher School in California, twice won the Croix de guerre in World War I. Back in the U.S. he went to Yale, where he published poems in the Lit. He is married to Novelist Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision), daughter of the late soprano Alma Gluck...