Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of research, he tracked down 164 cases, reports Dr. Bean (now at the University of Iowa) in the current A.M.A. Journal. The cases range over 300 years, from a "woeman or mayd in Suffolk who had a julking and fluctuation in her chest . . . heard by the standers by," to soldiers in modern war. Some of the noises-likened to the grinding of gears, the rustling of leaves, the crunching of newspapers, the cooing of doves-have kept their victims awake for nights on end; others have made it impossible for husbands or wives to sleep in the same room...
...foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange life behind the curtain. Last week Hazleton, Iowa (pop. 550) was still agitated by such an escape: two Amish girls had gone out into the Devil's world...
...fear haunting the Department of Agriculture is that a 20% acreage cut will not mean anywhere near a 20% cut in production. By using their best land and better farming practices, the farmers may produce much more per acre. There is a saying In Iowa: "Cut corn acreage and you have to build bigger bins...
Hecht's first half-hour show, a tale about "the big heart of Broadway" coming to the rescue of a young couple from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was as loaded with corny sentiment as with talk. Says Author Hecht: "We had to make the first one very sentimental because we used it to sell the sponsor [Willys Motors]." His second show last week was on the more Hechtian subject of hate; it told how a woman who has spent ten years in jail for shooting the other woman in a domestic triangle completes the job by plugging her husband...
...Patrick J. Norton, 70, onetime Dubuque, Iowa newspaper distributor and father of 14, returned from Rome, celebrated his first Mass in a U.S. church as a Roman Catholic priest. Though drawn to the priesthood as a young man, Father Norton had to find a job in which he could help his needy family. After the death of his wife, and with his children grown, he entered studies for the priesthood...