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Meanwhile, Eliot's golf squad heat Davenport College, 7 to 2 at New Haven...
Roving Reporter Walter Davenport had never felt comfortable in the editor's chair at Collier's. Since he took over the job (TIME, July 22, 1946), "Davvy" hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
These days, Tink no longer teaches, but refuses to think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink...
Last year, amid reams of newspaper ballyhoo, Davenport received the magnet for the machine--a magnet so strong that it could yank hammers out of people's hands and stop all the watches hear...
...Davenport plans to finish the whole thing this term. Then the press will hold another field day, and the public will finally get into the grey, windowless building on Oxford Street. What they'll see will be the biggest machine in the University push the smallest thing in the Universe at the fastest speed made...