Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the hashed-up remains went to Davenport, to sit up with it all night, rewrite it again. Willkie would get the finished version an hour or so before speech time, use perhaps...
...just ahead was the "squirrel cage"-the staff of experts and writers whose job was to dig up facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would...
...Evanston, III.; Fred Benyamin '41, Columbia, S. C.; Charles P. Berger, Jr. '41, Jackson, Mich.; Thomas W. Blazey '42, Euolid, O:; William J. Bobear '43, Upper Darby, Pa.; Charles Brounig '42, Indianapolis, Ind.; Robert W. Broge '42, Cleveland, O.; John W. Buddenberg '43, Gothenburg, Nebr.; Curtis A. Bush '43, Davenport...
...Landon '42, Baltimore, Md.; Walter J. Lear '43, Miami Beach, Fla.; Robert W. Levin '42, Portland, Ore.; Walter S. Long, Jr. '43, Mayfield, Ky.; Horace G. Lunt, 2d. '41, Denver, Colo.; James B. McCandless '42, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Charles M. McCroskey '43, Kansas City, Kans.; Donald F. McDonald '43, Davenport...
Down but not out, Lowell saw its chances for victory fade further into the distance in the third quarter, as the puritan powerhouse racked up another six points on a Dreher-to-Davenport pass from the six-yard stripe. The final score same in the closing, minutes when Jack Carpenter smashed off tackle for six yards...