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...James A. Farley, the Roosevelt campaign manager, was in Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...
...nearby Davenport, Iowa, started Chiropractic;in Kirksville, Mo., below the Iowa border, Osteopathy. Scientific Christianity flourishes in Kansas City Elgin, Ill. has Somopathy, Zion City, Ill. Dowieism, Chicago Sanatology...
During the year Cornish has played regularly on the University team, and playing on the B team in the final matches in February, defeating his opponent 3 to 1. With Cornish, A. E. Davenport III '34 and J. B. Walker '33 will form a nucleus for the next year's team, which will do well to equal the record of the 1932 players. Cornish prepared for Harvard at Middlesex...
...Marcia Davenport, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck, stepdaughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, in a notable book published last week tells Mozart's story.* The elder Mozart stalked patrons for his son until he was grown. The family needed money but rings and snuffboxes often paid for 18th Century music. Little, bewigged Mozart sat on the Empress Maria Theresa's ample lap. Once he was permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth...
...Marcia Davenport tells all this in a manner vital and direct. Her descriptions are authentic. She trekked all over Europe visiting the places Mozart visited. Her facts are sure but they are for laymen to read. No cross-references speck the pages. The sources, most of them original, are tucked neatly away in the back of the book...