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...came last week. Howard Dorsey, president of KFMA in Davenport, Iowa, had offered Bandy a new job at what the disk jockey understood to be $250 a week (his old salary: $100). Bandy arrived at his new headquarters, found a note waiting for him: "Welcome to KFMA. We hope you like your salary." Enclosed was a check...
Other contributions include Miss Dakin's "Pigs," a review of the Harvard lecture system, a criticism of Ezra Pound and Sherry Martinelly by Guy M. Davenport, Jr. '59, and a discussion by Morton H. Levine, teaching fellow in General Education, of experiences with students...
Radcliffe Freshmen achieved a higher percentage of students with Dean's List standing at midyears than any other Freshman Class in the College's history, Ruth K. Davenport, Registrar of Radcliffe College, announced yesterday. Forty-eight per cent of the Class of '62 have standing of Group Three or better...
...amiable Puerto Rican, broke in last year with a .312 batting average, 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in ("I butcher in field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player, seems finally to have solved big-league pitching, was leading the team in batting average...
Orlando Cepeda could have a sophomore slump, but the chances are he will turn into the loop's top first baseman. Daryl Spencer and Jim Davenport are both superlative fielders, but both hit .256 last year. The success of the infield will depend on the performance of Andre Rodgers at shortstop, a reformed cricket player who tore the PCL apart last year with a .354 average...