Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Bess Streeter Aldrich, 73. novelist (Miss Bishop) and short-story writer, whose tales of pioneer life in Iowa and Nebraska delighted women's magazine readers for two generations; of cancer; in Lincoln...
...Last Possession. Last week 22 delegates from eleven tribes wound up their four-day annual meeting with the traditional peyote ceremony. Into a large, canvas-covered tepee near the home of Howard Poweshiek, leader of the church on the reservation in Iowa, the Indians stepped quietly in single file. It was sundown. Dressed mostly in jeans or slacks and open shirts, the men sat cross-legged on the bare earth, facing a fire. Each helped himself to the peyote buttons that were passed around, and from time to time someone lit up a ceremonial cigarette (Bull Durham tobacco and corn...
Does a press photographer have the right to take a newsworthy picture even when the subject objects? In Denison, Iowa last week, this troublesome question was put to one of its rare court tests. Answer: the photographer is within his rights so long as he is in a public place...
Last week in an Iowa District Courthouse, Register lawyers argued that "the public has a right to know about these cases . . . The very security and success of government depends upon the dissemination of that kind of information." The jury took just four minutes to reach a verdict dismissing the complaint against Photographer Long. Ruled the court in effect: photographers on public property may take pictures of anyone they want to, objection...
...Skipping from town to town across the U.S., Hoxsey prescribed the tonic for internal tumors, and a yellowish arsenical powder (a widely used turn-of-the-century remedy) for skin cancer. By his own count, he was arrested more than 100 times. During a suit against the A.M.A. in Iowa, in 1931, one patient testified that after Hoxsey diagnosis and treatment, he had gone to a local doctor and discovered that he was suffering not from cancer but from barber's itch. Yet enough patients have stood by him to convince juries that Hoxsey and no other saved them...