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LAST VOYAGE (310 pp.)-Ann Davison -Sloane...
Many a fair dream has been crushed by a foreclosed mortgage. In 1949, the dream of Ann and Frank Davison was so close to reality that they resolved to defy the sheriff and achieve it. Theirs was not a new dream, but it was one that never loses its shine: they would sail around the world together in a small boat, and support themselves by writing about their adventures. They put all their money into buying and refitting the Reliance, a tough but rundown old 70-ft. fishing ketch, but they didn't have quite enough and they...
Last Voyage is a true story, and about two-thirds of it has the uninspired air that everyday truth imposes on any commonplace telling. Before the war, Frank Davison had run a small airport in Cheshire, England. He married Ann, a licensed pilot, soon after she went to work for him. The war put the Davisons' airport out of business, and they had to start from scratch at something new. As Ann tells it, the Davison saga was a succession of failures strung on a theme of hard luck. They tried gravel quarrying, farming, raising purebred goats. When...
...remember the item in Miscellany (Dec. 10) which told of the Davison-Paxon Co., an Atlanta department store, getting an order for five Confederate caps from U.S airmen in Korea and accepting a $10 Confederate bill in payment...
Wild Bill Davison along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder lead in the Dixieland group at EDDIE CONDON's. Jimmy Archey's band with Pops Foster on bass is the main attraction at JIMMY RYAN...