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Meyer, 44 years old, is an economist who has lived and worked in the Middle East and is now studying the North African region. The associate director of the Center for Middle Easters Studies, he earlier was director of research for the Harvard Pakistan Project. He was born in Hawarden, lowa, and has been on the Faculty since...
...Author. Well qualified to speak for her native State, Ruth Suckow (pronounced Soo-ko) was born in Hawarden, Iowa, the daughter of a Congregational minister who moved from church to church all over the State. Author Suckow wrote from childhood, but had more sense than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married...
Scrip. Three months ago at Hawarden, Iowa, 300 red-white-&-green certificates were put in circulation by the city. The Hawarden scrip was issued along lines similar to that of Evanston, but it had 36 places on the back to stick 3? stamps, thus assuring the city an 8? profit per dollar on redemption...
...Author. Daughter of a Congregational minister in Hawarden, la. (she was born in 1893). Ruth Suckow was a writing child. After she was graduated from the University of Denver she taught there for a while, then took to beekeeping. For six years she was manager-owner of the Orchard Apiary at Earlville, la., ran it at a profit. Henry Louis Mencken, then co-editor of Smart Set, bought her first stories, which pleased him considerably. Soon she switched the bees from their hives to her bonnet, where they have since buzzed to good effect. Two years ago she married...
...Murat Halstead has an article on the "City of Hamburg" and Mr. William H. Rideing writes of "A Recent Visit to Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden." An entertaining and very interesting sketch of "Art Schools of Paris' is contributed by Miss Lucy Hooper. Archibald Forbes tells the story of the Fall of Constantinople as it appeared to a war correspondent and Mr. George W. Cable speaks of "Education, for the Common People in the South...
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