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...Said Iowa-born Henry Wallace: "My greatest fear is that farmers themselves may destroy the farm legislative machinery by asking it to do work for which it was never designed. It would be a great disaster if the ever-normal granary were converted into an abnormal granary by loans completely out of line with the weather and the market. The farmer should face the economic facts of life and not strive for the impossible in a postwar world where worldwide supply & demand forces are loaded against him for the next ten years at least...
Composer Cowell says his folklike melodies come from his childhood in San Francisco, where his Irish-born father and Iowa-born mother brought him up on folk songs. He turned to unusual piano techniques, he thinks, because he had no composition teacher to tell him they were wrong. Later, he gravitated naturally to teaching because composing was expensive. Even now, when most of his music is commissioned, he has to earn his keep teaching: it costs hundreds of dollars to turn out a symphony score and parts...
...CAREER: Iowa-born, 1904; West Point, class of 1928; served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
...Iowa-born and Alabama-raised, Editor Cohen, 51, was brilliant enough to graduate from Yale at 19 and become managing editor of a small bimonthly, the Menorah Journal, at 24. While editing it for seven years, he showed a sharp eye for new talent, printed the first work of Lionel Trilling, Tess Slesinger, Albert Halper, Meyer Levin and a dozen other writers...