Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Labyrinths. The Trumans were also invited, as usual, to a holiday dinner and reception at the grandiose farm home of their old friend C. Blevins Davis, onetime Independence schoolteacher who came into money on the death of his wife, Great Northern Railroad Heiress Marguerite Sawyer Hill. This...
In the midst of the Davis Cup tennis match, Referee Cliff Sproule waved his hand and stopped play. The Sydney Stadium crowd began to buzz as Sproule got up and walked to the front-row grandstand seat, where U.S. Coach Jack Kramer was sitting. The referee spoke to Professional Kramer...
Sproule's action was new for big tennis matches, but so were a few other items on the Davis Cup program last week. Sproule had apparently caught Kramer coaching from the sidelines, a breach of tennis etiquette. As it turned out, etiquette took a bad beating-almost as bad...
WINDS OF MORNING (344 pp.)-H. L. Davis-Morrow ($3.50).
"New country," says an oldtimer in Winds of Morning, "puts an edge on a man." It can put an edge on a writer too. About 15 years ago, H. L. (for Harold Lenoir) Davis marked a fictional trail through the big new country north of California and west of Idaho...