Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Windsor was impressed by the understanding of Britain shown in a series about his old friend, Winston Churchill. The Duke had a mutual friend call up Charles J. V. Murphy, now a LIFE staff writer, a big, ducal-looking Bostonian who had written the article (with John Davenport). The friend's suggestion: the Duke of Windsor and Reporter Murphy ought to know each other because "the Duke is thinking of doing some writing himself." The result of the delayed meeting (Murphy first spent six months in the Pacific as a war correspondent) was a three-part story...
...Davenport, opening with a rush that left Eliot far behind, scored first at 3:32 of the first period on a long screen-shot. Kent Eaton countered with an unassisted goal at 4:12, but two plays later Davenport's Joe Quinn scored from a faceoff in Harvard territory...
...Davenport Has Edge...
...second period was much the same as the first: Davenport's teamwork and speed gave it a definite adge over Eliot, whose backchecking and passing was sloppy. The only score came at 5:02 when Bill Dealy slapped in a rebound...
Birdsall's two last-period goals both came on one-man plays. Doug Bradlee passed to him at the Eliot blue line on the first, and he carried in from there to score; the second time, he poke-checked Davenport's left defenseman, grabbed the puck and scored on a shot almost identical to the previous...