Word: davises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phyllis Davis
Davis McCown
Friendly or merely fatuous, Americans seem to be first-naming everyone-lovers and strangers alike-with promiscuous enthusiasm. Even Boston has capitulated. Mrs. Alfred Titcomb, a dowager of Beacon Street, has decreed that henceforth she wishes to be addressed as "Mildred." The champion American first-namer may be Harold Davis...
Playing Martin Luther King Jr. would be a challenge for any actor, but for Paul Winfield (Sounder, Hustle) it is something more: the repayment of a debt. "If not for Martin," he says, "I doubt I would have been able to make a success of acting. He raised black people...
Davis and Gay were appointed by Hughes as directors of the independent Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which owns Hughes Aircraft (worth about $500 million). Henley serves as secretary. So far, Lummis has found no legal means of deposing them. From that bastion, they can wage a campaign against Lummis'...