Word: davision
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If there has been more than the usual amount of Georgia accent and baseball talk around the diamonds of Soldiers Field of late, it is due to the presence of Lawrence "Crash" Davis, former major league ball player, and present B team baseball coach.
Fresh out of Duke University in 1940, where he had been captain of the baseball team, Davis joined Connie Mack's club, but spent his first year behind $45,000 Benny McCoy, the A's widely publicized second sacker who had been obtained only the season before. Still, he managed...
Least Likely to Succeed. The subject of these reports received from TIME correspondents last week is-as they demonstrate-well on his way toward becoming a living legend. Four years ago he was an obscure roving reporter whose syndicated column of trivial travelogues appeared in an unimpressive total of 40...
Curtis spoke for many another Negro serviceman, who will be a powerful force in Negro society after the war. But it seemed unlikely that mellow old (67) Ben Davis, a regular of 43 years of service and the only Negro ever to wear a U.S. general officer's star...
Died. Norman Hezekiah Davis, 65, national chairman of the American Red Cross, onetime U.S. Ambassador-at-Large; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hot Springs, Va. At 39, he had made $1,000,000 in Cuban banking and Cuban sugar, retired to devote himself to public service. His financial, diplomatic and...