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...work on the farm." Even some who think Dole is being tarnished unfairly admit that TV is too important a medium to dismiss, and it is clearly not Dole's strength. Many supporters feel relieved when they finally see their man in person. After Dole's speech in Anamosa, Joyce Poulter, 70, said, "He was more impressive than he was on television. I had thought he was too old, but he looks younger than...
...country boy who lived mostly in small cities, Wood drew nearly all the fundamental images of his work from the first ten years of his life on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa. No artist was more accommodating to his clients; his first mural commission, The Adoration of the Home, 1921-22, showing a group of allegorical figures around a cornfed goddess of the hearth who holds up a model house built by the Cedar Rapids developer Henry Ely, is a masterpiece of kitsch. But when unleashed, his imagination would scoot back to Anamosa every time...
Togetherness. In Anamosa, Iowa, Gary Lee Wessling, 17, asked to be transferred from the Men's Reformatory in Anamosa to the State Penitentiary in Fort Madison so he could serve his 30-year stretch in the same pen where...
...Chase. In Iowa, investigation showed why an Anamosa-Clinton branch line freight train had been consistently running late: its crew had taken to stopping in the country to pot rabbits and quail...
...arrived in Washington a quarter century ago from Anamosa, Iowa to catch on briefly with the Washington Herald before landing a small job with Pathfinder (a news weekly which circulates mostly to farmers), where he ran a question & answer column that predated the radio quiz shows. Other reporters who had vaulted to fame and fat contracts wondered what kept...