Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another reader, a thrifty Iowa farmer's wife, liked to give TIME to as many friends as possible. Her way of paying for these gift subscriptions was to choose one of her sows which was in a family way and, when the sow littered, to sell its offspring and send the money to us with a list of the friends she wanted TIME sent...
...Vegas, Nev. last summer, to get a divorce, Kay put on her act in a nightclub show to pass the time, and surprised even her own confident self by bringing the house down. Teamed up with the Williams Brothers, a quartet from Iowa who had knocked about on their own for about ten years with little success, she was ready for Ciro...
Double Take. In Guttenberg, Iowa, Fisherman Eldon Saeuging disappointedly found an old 4O-qt. cream can on the end of his line, happily discovered inside it a 34-lb. catfish...
...Moines, Iowa, a 21-year-old mail-carrier named William C. Woodward testified that his wife did not want a baby, was granted a divorce decree which gave him custody of their unborn child...
...Iowa, in the congenial Republican atmosphere of the Iowa Bankers' Association convention at Des Moines, Bob Taft* and Harold Stassen were as chummy as classmates at a college reunion. They had breakfast together. They appeared together for lunch at a Republican rally and were greeted by an orchestral medley of Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee and Beautiful Ohio. Then both spoke from the same dais. Said Taft, warmly: "Governor Stassen and I have differed on many issues . . . but we are prepared to compromise our individual views to ... maintain the solidarity of the party." Replied Harold Stassen: "I have...