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...series of final training exercises: an attack, with live ammunition, on a line of dummies "defending" a hill. Rifles banged. Artillery shells moaned overhead and exploded in "enemy" territory. Amid the excitement Edgar had an odd impulse. He aimed his M1 rifle at the back of 2nd Lieut. Richard Davenport, 22, the officer commanding his platoon. Then he pulled the trigger. The officer toppled over dead with a bullet through his heart...
...MAXWELL DAVENPORT TAYLOR, Lieutenant General, U.S.A...
...Davenport. At the time, Coe looked invulnerable. His Washington career had been highly successful. A native of Richmond, a graduate of the University of Chicago, Coe had worked at Johns Hopkins and Toronto Universities and for the Brookings Institute before he came to Washington...
...Treasury Department, he worked closely under Assistant Secretary Harry Dexter White, who died soon after Whittaker Chambers called him a key figure in the Red infiltration of Washington. To many of his subordinates, White seemed a rather frightening and unapproachable boss. Coe, who used to stretch out on the davenport in White's office, became a channel between White and the staff. At the Bretton Woods Conference, Coe did important organizational chores, just as Alger Hiss had done during the founding of the United Nations at San Francisco. In 1946, Coe became secretary of the Bretton Woods offspring...
Puritan halfback Norm Hall took a pitchout from quarterback Frank Scanlon late in the third period and swept around right end for 30 yards and a touchdown. Davenport's Bob O'Connell got the Yale score on a five yard sweep around left end with 40 seconds left in the first half. Winthrop was a definite underdog going into the game...