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...Iowa road a posse stopped Iowa's corn-fed Poet Paul Engle, warned him that two jailbirds, self-sprung from a nearby prison farm, might be lurking around Engle's summer home, a rambling old stone house near Cedar Rapids. Quipped Engle's car companion, daughter Mary, 18: "Oh, we'll probably find them at our house!" They did. The fugitives, a forger and an auto thief, had already held Engle's wife for nearly five hours, also had daughter Sara, 14, at kitchen-knifepoint. In the three hours that followed, the resourceful Engle family...
...green boater has no business in these waters. But an old pro-such as A'Delbert Frank Rich, 41, a Cedar City optometrist and twelve-year boating veteran-should have been safe enough. Aboard his 15-ft., red-and-white cruiser he confidently brought his wife Penney, 35, and his parents, Frank, 65, and Lillian...
Editing such copy, the Farm Journal's Streeter is as much farmer as newsman. He grew up on a South Dakota livestock ranch, graduated with a degree in agriculture from Iowa State College in 1923. After college, he caught on with the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette as its first farm editor, spent days skidding down muddy roads to dig out stories in long, back-fence chats with farmers. Says he: "When you're looking for news, there's nothing that beats getting out yourself and talking to sources...
...Radcliffe Student Government Association held the Spring term Cedar Hill Conference, a meeting between S.G.A. members and the Radcliffe deans, yesterday afternoon and evening in Comstock Hall...
...whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher and the department stores of Cedar Rapids, Iowa were 4.5% ahead of last year. In the South, where new industry was moving in 50% faster than last year, most of what was known about the recession was what the people read in the news dispatches from the North. Says Southern Co.'s President Harllee Branch...