Word: wendelle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A lifelong Republican, Jenkins has dabbled a bit in politics (e.g., Tennessee manager for Wendell Willkie in 1940), but his name has never been on a ballot. He was a Taftman until the 1952 G.O.P. convention began, and then he flew to Chicago and urged the Tennessee delegation to get...
¶ John Kenneth Cannon, 62, retired Air Force general, took over as chairman of the board of Fletcher Aviation Corp., one of the largest makers of detachable wing tanks for the Air Force. One of the world's great air tacticians, "Uncle Joe" Cannon put in more time in...
For their term papers, students must write book reports, e.g., on Yankee from Olympus (the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), but to improve their table conversation, Professor Davenport also makes them deliver oral reports. By the end of the year, says he, his class should have covered a lot...
Died. Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport, 54, author (My Country}, managing editor (1937-40) and chairman of the board of editors of FORTUNE (1941), chief editorial writer of LIFE (1942-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In August 1939, Davenport met Lawyer Wendell Willkie at a FORTUNE round table...
Samuel E. Shaw II: House Football; Chairman Lowell House Committee; Wendell Prize Scholar of Class of 1954; Air Force ROTC.