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Died. Pauline Morton Davis, 67, widow of Dwight Davis (Secretary of War under Calvin Coolidge and tennis' Davis Cup donor), founder (1929) of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, first woman member (1924) of the Republican National Committee; after long illness; in Washington, D.C.
Jorgensen and Fletcher Davis will enter the 440 for the Crimson. Hawkins, again, and Sigo Falk should handle the breast-stroke superiorly, as usual. Their event follows, rather than precedes, the 440 this year. This rearrangement removes the necessity of Jorgensen's swimming the grueling quarter and the free style...
To the Gettysburg White House went a petition urging the release of the 16 second-string U.S. Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas...
Jefferson Davis, by Hudson Strode, tried to rescue the President of the Confederacy from the sour apple tree from which he has been so long suspended. In the first volume (another to come), Davis seemed to be treated with exaggerated sympathy, but the portrait of a young Southern gentleman came...
Music Hath Charms. In Chicago, Church Organist Robert J. Metzler, 50, got a court injunction against Harriet Davis, thirtyish, and her mother, Mrs. Belle Davis, fiftyish, complained that for four years they had upset his organ playing by coming to church on Sundays and ogling him from the front pew...