Word: mitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first doubles team of Ager and Bullard rested while Ames and Hughes, Robb and Dave Key, and Mitch Reese and Bob Bramhall performed for the varsity...
Thin Man. In Manhattan, slim Lav Mitch, befuddled from a late party, lay down in the middle of a subway track, was awakened uninjured by policemen after at least one train had passed over...
...Tory defeat, strangely enough, was annoying instead of pleasing to Ted Jolliffe. His party had just been shellacked in the February by-election in Grey North (TIME, Feb. 12); the CCF wanted no election now. Mitch Hepburn, who engineered the business, could grin at the defeat of one rival and the discomfiture of another, but there was little chance of the Liberals picking up many new seats. The man who beamed was George Drew. Now he could go to the people, contend that his opponents had sabotaged him, ask for a clear majority...
Bleary-eyed, but confident of unsets all around, we sit dreaming of a white Christmas. Yes, before this literary mess again hits print old Santa will have come and gone. Trees are scattered round the unit here and there, but "Mitch's" individual little tree seems to take top honors. A desk job, "Mich" is proud of his spirit...
...Author. Born in South Bethlehem, Pa., the son of a vice president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport wrote poetry for ten years before entering journalism, wrote none for 14 years afterwards. He went to Thacher School in California, twice won the Croix de guerre in World War I. Back in the U.S. he went to Yale, where he published poems in the Lit. He is married to Novelist Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision), daughter of the late soprano Alma Gluck...