Word: davenport
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...Davenport, Iowa City, Oxford and Grinnell, Harry Truman stepped out on the rear platform, with Margaret beside him, to give them hell. "Them" was the Republicans. "The issue is the people against the special interests," he said. Proof? "All you need to do is review the record of this Republican Soth Congress...
Lest the new look appear alarming, Editor Walter Davenport wrote a soothing message to advertisers that it was really the same old magazine. "We appear in this issue in new clothes," said he, "as all men and things must from time to time for the good of their souls." And, might have added, for the good of Collier's circulation...
...110th time this year, police haled David Douglas Davenport into court, charged him, as usual, with illegally selling liquor in Washington's Union Station, saw him, as usual, prepare to beat the rap. Davenport keeps his liquor in station lockers, sells the key-not the liquor-to his customers. To avoid charges of loitering, he always carries a ticket to Baltimore in his pocket...
Married. John Lujack, 23, Notre Dame's All-America quarterback of '46 and '47, who joins the professional Chicago Bears this fall; and Patricia Ann Schierbrock, 21, pretty brunette; in Davenport, Iowa...
...Eliot Crew bucked stiff head winds along the 3/4 mile course to win in 4:23. It took an early lead on the Davenport boat and led all the way despite a last minute rally by Yale...