Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Jan. 26 story on the Wisconsin-Iowa basketball game at Madison . . . leads many of us rabid, wild-eyed midwestern basketball fans to wonder . . . whether TIME'S snappy style necessitates a mutilation of the facts...
Your article . . . was the bunk. . . . The game was one of the roughest in Wisconsin history-because of Iowa's illegal and rough play...
...contrast to the "screaming, wildly partisan Wisconsin crowd," your reporter sounds like a screaming, wildly partisan Iowa grad...
...deluge of letters from Madison came one from TIME'S bloody but unbowed correspondent there: "The story about the Wisconsin-Iowa game has rocked the campus to its foundations. The students are up in arms. The daily Cardinal . . . headlines intimate that I wrote the article and that I was a Judas, a traitor, a high-blown intellectual who betrayed his alma mater. Today is my birthday, and it is 15 below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn...
...their best argument was two Government-owned distilleries at Omaha, Neb. and Muscatine, Iowa. In December, Secretary Anderson had promised distillers to shut off grain from the Government plants, leased to private operators. But Anderson later changed his mind, gave the Omaha still 60,000 bushels a month, gave Muscatine...