Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hackensack, N. J.; Phillip J. Erard, Springfield, Mass.; Paul G. Forand, New Bedford, Mass.; John C. Hamel, Parts, France; Jan E. Jertson, Fairhaven, Mass.; Robert T. McConaughy, Sharonville, Ohio; George N. McNair Jr., Farmington, Wash.; Robert Marsotta, Cambridge, Mass.; Walton H. Rawls, Atlanta, Ga.; Lester B. Scherer, Des Moines, Iowa; Harry K. Ziel, McKees Rocks, Pa.; Franklin P. Barker, Dallas, Texas...
These rock-steady traits did not grow out of a conventional childhood. Bill was born in Ottumwa, Iowa (present pop. 33,631), of English-Dutch ancestry. His parents (his father was an airman too) separated when he was a baby, leaving him to be raised by his paternal grandmother. When he got pneumonia, she took him to California to build up his health...
...Penny Earned. In Boone, Iowa, Mrs. Sam Saddoris moved her automobile to recover a penny that had rolled underneath it, did $102 damage when the car rammed a parking meter, caromed off a building, lurched half a block down the sidewalk...
Captain Harold E. Fischer Jr., 27, the U.S.'s third-ranking jet ace,* is a shy, boyish-looking Iowa farm boy who drew a bead on a MIG-15 as if he were leading a wild duck. Interviewed last month on becoming a "double ace," he embarrassed the Air Force by saying that he knocked out eight of his ten MIGs, not by using the Air Force's fine radar gunsight, but just by using "Kentucky windage" to get on his target...
Hauser, who graduated from Cornell College of Iowa in 1950, was National Intercollegiate 123-pound Champion in 1948, '49, and '50. Lee said that Hauser is the "toughest guy" he has ever wrestled...