Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Philip Davidson was sprung from prison after doing 17 years, there were a few Londoners who had a right to feel uneasy. Davidson had been sent up for a murder he did not commit, and two witnesses who might have established his innocence had remained inexplicably silent. So the police kept an eye on Philip Davidson. Commander Lowther, detective in charge, had a special interest in the case. His wife had once been Davidson's mistress, and one of the two witnesses who failed...
...been a sordid murder, and the victim, a small-time criminal, had taken his last lumps on a shabby barge moored in the Thames. Davidson, a riverman's son and an innocent bystander, happened to be there because his girl Fay lived on the boat. Fay was a big, handsome girl, and when the trial was over, Policeman Lowther courted and married her. Lowther is a decent man, rather long on conscience. He wants to protect his wife, who has never told him what really happened, but he also knows that Davidson has been wronged. The real kick...
...community are asking the government to underwrite their competitive position by sacrificing both foreign policy objectives and the taxpayers money? Are they struggling baby firms, or vital defense industries? It is difficult to place the Wisconsin cheese industry in either category. It is equally hard to see why Harley-Davidson, the nation's principle domestic motorcycle manufacturer, should get protection from lightweight English cycles when it both specializes in heavyweight models and already has a stranglehold on the domestic military and police market. Yet both these industries have asked for severe duty increases, and will probably get them...
Music and Fine Arts are tied with three changes each. Excepting Music 1, all undergraduate history of music offerings are new. G. Wallace Woodworth professor of Music, is listed for two and Archibald T. Davidson, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, will lecture on the "History of Choral Music: 1430 to the Present" (120, Groups XVI. XVII...
...touring tennis men fared poorly in two non-league matches earlier in the week. A strong North Carolina squad whipped the Crimson, 8 to 5, in its first match of the year last Monday and Tuesday, while Davidson, playing both 'A' and 'B' Harvard teams, won both matches, 7 to 2 and 8 to 1, Wednesday and Thursday...