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...people in Norway thought that Arne Fjellbu had the stuff of a hero or a martyr. The Iowa-born Dean of Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was too jovial, too easygoing. No one thought, when the Nazis first came, that he would ever defy them...
Killed in Action. Staff Sergeant John Aloysius Bushemi, 26, probably the best-known noncom in the Pacific area (one of Yank's finest cameramen), Iowa-born buddy of Sergeant Marion Hargrove (See Here, Private Hargrove); on the Eniwetok beachhead...
Like her husband, Lou Henry Hoover was Iowa-born; like him, she moved West at an early age. As a girl in Whittier, Calif., where her father was the town's first banker, she was tall, lanky, not over-strong. On long camping trips in the mountains with her father, she learned to love nature; later, at Leland Stanford University, she majored in natural history...
That the State Department's Turner would work toward such aims as these seemed clear from the fact that he had helped formulate them at Harpers Ferry. His personal history would seem to assure the forcefulness of his work. The Iowa-born economist and historian (Great Cultural Traditions) is veteran No. 1 of the bitter wars fought around the University of Pittsburgh's skyscraper "Cathedral of Learning." There Turner made a fine teaching record only to be fired in 1934 by Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman. With this ousting, the Chancellor started something. Investigation by a professional committee...
...Haguesters charged 1) that Governor Charles Edison could have found Iowa-born Studebaker's equal among native Jerseymen; 2) that present Commissioner Charles H. Elliott was being shelved after seven years because...