Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With pride, pomp and publicity, Princeton Alumnus ('30) Shelby Collum Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86...
The money was in a trust fund for his daughter Diana-a fund which Banker Davis started with a $4,000 investment when she was born 22 years ago. (Another $3,800,000 fund is in trust for Son Shelby, 24.) Diana, who has had full legal right to the...
A descendant of John Alden, and a man who dotes on his purebred lines, Banker Davis was so furious that he ordered his public relations firm to deluge New York newspapers with a five-page release denouncing his daughter and mourning the loss to Princeton. Diana already has "an assured...
Diana retorted that the "assured" life income and cash gift was news to her. Papa's pressure about the fund, she said, was actually caused by her engagement to a schoolteacher, John Means Spencer, of whom Davis disapproves, even though the young man is a distant relative of Winston...
With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly...