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Borlaug, who has received 54 honerary doctorate degrees, grew up on a farm, and spent his first eight years of school in a one-room schoolhouse near Cresco, Iowa...
...winners of the Henry Russell Shaw Fellowships are: Kevin Middlebrook '72 of Currier House and Cresco, Iowa; Michael Robinson '71-4 of Lowell House and Chicago; Peter Sutton '72 of Eliot House and Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; and 'Nils Vigeland '72 of Quincy House and Buffale...
Died. Edward Henry Cunningham, 61. of Cresco, Iowa, vice governor of the Federal Reserve Board; of heart disease; in Washington...
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 61, famed 5 & 10 cent store tycoon, lavish Anti-Salooner, of Highland Park, Mich.; to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine, 34, of Cresco, Pa., daughter of a late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about...
...Near Cresco, Iowa, last week, an automobile sped down a road, a tire blew out, the car turned over, flames burst forth. Out from beneath, unhurt, crawled U. S. Representative Gilbert Nelson Haugen, co-author with U. S. Senator Charles Linza McNary (Oregon) of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times...