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...town with Wendell Willkie came the three original members of the For-Willkie-Before-May-11-1940-club : 1) Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, gaunt, earnest journalist-philosopher who quit his job as managing editor of FORTUNE to devote himself to this man; 2) Oren Root Jr., young New York law clerk, who formed a Willkie-For-President club on his own hook and $150; 3) Charlton MacVeagh, a G.0.P. contact man who drafted himself...
These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...
Nearest thing to professional publicizing that Mr. Willkie had in the East was volunteered by FORTUNE'S onetime Managing Editor Russell Davenport (who resigned May 2 "to further the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie"). Last week, after the professional politicos had stopped laughing, "Mitch" Davenport received the following wire from Washington: "THANKS A MILLION, MITCH. YOU SAVED THE NEW DEAL, THE FOREIGN POLICY, AND THE THIRD TERM. TOM CORCORAN...
...Greatest show of chiropractic instruments is in the Palmer Clinic at Davenport, Iowa, run by Palmer's filially bearded son Bartholomew Josiah...
...Davenport's squash team will take on the Eliot House racquetmen on the Elliot courts at 4 o'clock...