Word: anamosa
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Better 'Ole. In Anamosa, Iowa, a paroled convict pondered the state of the world, asked to be readmitted to prison, got an extra 15 months...
Publisher John Sanner of Anamosa (Iowa) News got a wire from Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, offering him $236 to run a series of ads, part of B.B.D. & O.'s whirlwind enlistment campaign for the Navy. Publisher John, aged 10 and now in the fifth grade, wired back that he couldn't handle 8,000 lines in his 3 by 7 in., four-page, rubber-type weekly on which, last issue, he netted $1.38. Result of the ensuing publicity: News circulation rose from 75 to 100 and Publisher Sanner decided to buy a new press...
Grant Wood was born in 1892 in Anamosa, Iowa, site of Iowa's best known Reformatory. His family was rigidly Quaker. His first studio was a hiding place under the red checkered table cloth of the oval dining-room table. In 1907. when he was 15, Grant Wood made a little water color of a spray of green currants of which he is extremely proud. It was painted in what he now realizes is his natural style, hard, exact, brittle. The currants were on view last week together with a number of pictures from the pink-whisker period...
...been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City and What Cheer. Grant Wood, 40, was born at Anamosa, Iowa. His Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings-are mathematically meticulous. The natural detail is stylized, as in a treetop indicated by a score of leaf-shapes that look as though turned out by a cookie-mould. His people...