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...smoky blue December afternoon in Pacific Palisades he was telling the old story again ?about his job hunting in 1932, about heading for Chicago, where "a very kind woman" at NBC told him to start out in the sticks. So he drove around to radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, where he made his pitch to the program director, Peter MacArthur, an arthritic old Scotsman who hobbled on two canes. Reagan, of course, had that voice, and he had played football for Eureka College. But MacArthur said that he had just hired someone else, and Reagan stomped off muttering...
...views, and after some mulling, he settled on 1932. That was the year he turned 21 and went home to Dixon, III., a graduate of tiny Eureka College near Peoria. Then, after a summer of lifeguarding at Lowell Park near Dixon, he found, at radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, 60 miles away, a chance to get into sports announcing. What was the year like for the nation and the young man who would one day lead...
Currier needed only a 55 yd. touchdown completion from Jon Ealy to Keith Woods to dump Stiles-Morse 6-0. And as the sun set on this season's House football action, John Marston, Aaron Dean, and Wayne McDuffy scored touchdowns in Winthrop-Leverett's 19-0 sinking of Davenport-Pierson...
Jenny White tallied the only goal of the entire soccer event (Kirkland won by default and Lowell battled Jonathan Edwards to a scoreless deadlock in the other games) to power Quincy over Davenport-Pierce, 1-0, in the battle of champions. The Q-women dragged coach Dave Jackson through the mud to celebrate the triumph...
Burns could not be reached, and neither City Manager James L. Sullivan nor Police Chief Leo Davenport would comment on the case...