Word: davenport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small contingent of new students already checked in at the Registrar's Office this week, however. Miss Ruth Davenport, Registrar, revealed that four new transfer students and seven former undergraduates who ar returning after an absence, added 11 new undergraduates to the student body. This number, she said, is at par with last year's when 12 new students checked in at the College...
Based on a novel by Marcia Davenport, the story details a romantic free-for-all between six or seven sketchy characters, no two of whom love each other with enough decisiveness to settle down. The chief conflict centers in a mellowing playboy (Mason) who is torn between...
...cold; the thermometer stood at 19°. In the hushed buildings of Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, nurses worked at the desks, hurried soundlessly down hushed corridors on errands of the deep night. A nurse paused at a window, glanced out into the darkness, caught her breath in horror; thin patches of snow in the yard were lighted with the red glare of flames. She raced down the corridor to spread the alarm. As she did, the hospital's St. Elizabeth mental ward, a 60-year-old frame building, was spewing smoke and flame. Trapped in its rooms...
Within the minute, both stepped into the soft-lighted office of the Secretary of State, appearing as though from behind sliding panels from the neatly disguised elevator recesses in his suite. Dean Acheson, who was waiting, waved his two visitors to a soft red leather davenport. At that moment, only his closest personal aide knew they were there. For an hour and 50 minutes, before they departed in the same clandestine fashion, the two chief architects of U.S. defense talked with the chief of diplomatic strategy. They were meeting together because, after months of inaction and hesitation, Harry Truman...
...When Davenport goes into Barron's this week, its present editor, George Shea, crack corporation analyst, will become financial editor of the Wall Street Journal. The two will work closely together. Davenport would like to see Barron's slowly become a more influential journal of political and economic opinion, but is mum about specific changes. Says he: "There's no magic in this business. It'll come out in the doing...