Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Bette Davis, 37, starey, brainy cinemactress; and William Grant Sherry, 31, pugilist turned painter; she for the third time, he for the first; in Riverside, Calif.
Died. Dwight Filley Davis, 66, Secretary of War under Coolidge, Governor General of the Philippines under Hoover, threetime (1899-1901) national doubles tennis champion (paired with Holcombe Ward) who donated the famed and much-coveted Davis Cup; after long illness; in Washington.
Navy's underdogs charged hard (six-man line, with two close backer-uppers) and barely missed some important tackles. But to miss Blockbuster Doc Blanchard and Speedster Glenn Davis was disaster: Army scored in seven plays.
Three men will alternate in the two guard posts: Sol Mariaschin, Steve Davis, and former football end, Paul Champion. Mariaschin, smallest of the probable starters at 5 feet, 9 inches, is the team's number one ball-handler and dribbler, while Champion, if he can work into shape on time...
No matter what else was said about Brooklyn's flat-nosed, puffy-lipped "Bum-my" Davis, no man could deny that he would fight anything on two feet.