Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN F. PHOENIX Davenport, Iowa...
Lift for the Hurdles. After touring the Republican strongholds of southern Illinois, Nixon arrived by plane in Davenport, Iowa and got the biggest lift of the week. It was Dwight Eisenhower's pungent political war cry, and Nixon, watching Ike on TV from his hotel room, recovered from a good deal of his gloom. He hurried right out to Davenport's Masonic Auditorium, where a Republican crowd of more than 3,000 had heard the President's speech on big-screen TV. The President, said Nixon, spoke "with great eloquence and conviction tonight. He spoke much...
...when he saw a newspaper ad for a shell home for $1,195. It looked like a bargain, and he borrowed the money to buy it. It also looked like a good business, and he borrowed some more to go into partnership with the builder, O. L. Davenport. In 1948 he bought out Davenport for $49,000 and struck out on his own, finally in 1955 was big enough to form the Jim Walter Corp...
...Director Stanley Kubrick was swamped with letters from U.S. mothers who thought their daughters just right for the part, surveyed 800 budding teen-agers before finally announcing the winner last week. Kubrick's choice: Sue Lyon, a blonde, blue-eyed, 14-year-old junior high school girl from Davenport, Iowa, now living in Los Angeles with her widowed mother...
FICTION 1. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (2)* 2. Advise and Consent, Drury (3) 3. Hawaii, Michener (1) 4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4) 5. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 6. The Affair, Snow (5) 7. Water of Life, Robinson (7) 8. The Constant Image, Davenport (8) 9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute 10. Clea, Durrell NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 2. Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made...