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...election, the parish priests read an announcement of Msgr. Jordan from the pulpit: "The issue is simple-the choice of C.I.O.-U.A.W., a good American union, or Communist-dominated U.E.-F.E. Good Catholics, who know the evils of atheistic Communism, should vote . . . C.I.O.-U.A.W." Across the Mississippi in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, another seven priests joined the campaign. After the sermons, two U.E.-F.E. shop stewards bolted to the C.I.O. Next day at Farmall, though no more than 15% of the workers are Catholic, U.A.W. buttons blossomed everywhere, and the result no longer seemed in doubt. The C.I.O.-U.A.W...
...BROTHER'S KEEPER, by Marcia Davenport (457 pp.; Scribner; $3.95) proves mostly that a writer with nothing much to say need never despair: the tabloids are full of stories. This one is about two old bachelor brothers who were found dead in a house full of junk (just like the famous Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were found dead in a junk-filled house in uptown Manhattan). Why, asks Author Davenport, did devoted brothers of good family and good education die in squalor and madness when they had scads of money in the bank? The answer: Momism. Old Grandma...
...youth is being held at the Cambridge police department, where charges of attempted larceny and possession of a switch blade knife will probably be made against him. Cambridge police officers Lee O. Davenport and William Killion made the arrest...
...class in each college. Under the old system, which resembles the Harvard house plan, freshmen in groups of up to 12 could apply to any house of their choice. Invariably 60 to 70 percent of past Yale classes have bid for one of three socially elite colleges, Davenport, Calhoon, or Branford...
Died. Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport, 54, author (My Country}, managing editor (1937-40) and chairman of the board of editors of FORTUNE (1941), chief editorial writer of LIFE (1942-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In August 1939, Davenport met Lawyer Wendell Willkie at a FORTUNE round table, zealously set out to promote him as a presidential candidate, managed the Willkie strategy at the 1940 Republican Convention, headed the Willkie brain trust during the whirlwind 1940 campaign...