Word: davey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over in one half of the cage, Davey Nelson wheeled about 45 backfield men through the first easy stages of the Michigan system. At one point, the diminutive Nelson had his half-a-hundred charges doing slow motion spins and fakes in delicate terpsichorean unison...
Here are the men who will guide the Crimson's '48 gridiron policy: from left to right, they are, Davey Nelson, backfield coach, head coach Art Valpey, "Butch" Jordan, line coach, and Captain Ken O'Donnell. The general staff will be completed tomorrow with the arrival of Elimer Madar, who will tutor the Crimson ends this fall...
Gloria Swanson, failing to win the high-styled support she wanted from husband No. 5, Wall Streeter William N. Davey, managed to ward off a frumpy future. The svelte siren of the silents had sued for a weekly $1,000, won a neat but not gaudy...
Died. Martin L. Davey, 61. who left a million-dollar tree-surgery business to become Democratic Governor of Ohio (1935-39) because "I get a thrill out of it"; of coronary thrombosis; in Kent. Ohio. His administration, marked by protracted wranglings with New Dealers over pension politics, ended in his own whopping defeat by Republican John Bricker...
Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren of the silents, trim and tiger-eyed at 46, fought her fifth husband* for high-styled support, went to court in Manhattan for separate maintenance of $1,000 a week. Wall Streeter William N. Davey had the money, said she, but they didn't get along: 1) he drank too much; 2) she wanted to live at her place on Fifth Avenue, he at his on Park; 3) she liked twin beds, he a double one big enough to sleep a ball team; 4) he talked about building her a yacht with a glass...