Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, Eliot will meet Yale's Davenport College in the top contest of the inter-college meetings. Davenport, like Eliot, works its attack from a T formation but has turned in low scores all year...
...Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles...
Died. Harry Davenport, 83, silver-haired grand old man of the stage (he took his first bow at five; had his diamond jubilee as an actor in 1946); in Los Angeles. He had played everything from the Second Gravedigger in Hamlet to Broadway runs opposite Jane Cowl, before switching to Hollywood, where he acted character roles in 113 films (Gone With the Wind, Wells Fargo...
...Davenport closed the ceremonies with a dramatic demonstration of the cyclotron's potency. He placed a block of metal that had been bombarded by the machine before a Geiger counter. A violent ticking from this machine showed that the block was radio-active...
Ransen, Forest Warnyr of 331 Park View, Racine Wis.; Washington Park High, Racine. Hayden, Royal Clifford of 1133 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, Minn.; Albert Lee Senior High, Albert Lee Johnson. William Reynold of 129 Center Street, Excelsior Minn.; Excelsior High. Kinser, Samuel Christianson of 828 West 16th Street, Davenport, Ia.; Davenport High...