Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (goal: $234,684), which has had united charities campaigns since 1914, went about the 1952 drive with seasoned team spirit. Schoolchildren competed in an essay contest. Topic: "My Favorite Red Feather Agency...
...protruded from the hip pocket of one, a long loaf of bread from another. Professor Jay C. Hackleman, a University of Illinois agronomist on loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join...
...speech was over, and Elmer strode into the cornfield. He seized an ear or two, ripped the husks open with his hook and tossed them into the wagon. One of the Frenchmen spat. Then Elmer took off his shirt. "Okay, Thorson," he called to his companion, a onetime Iowa farmboy now clerking at the U.S. Embassy in Paris...
...thing, it will give him a chance to buy one of those cannon scarecrows. An uninhibited man who startled the Democratic conventioneers in Chicago last July by leading a live donkey into the lobby of the Palmer House, Elmer badly wants a cannon scarecrow to take home to Iowa; he thinks he might even set it up on the rail of his ship and "let go a real Iowa salute" at the Statue of Liberty on the way home...
Unbeaten Maryland, the nation's No. 2 team, romped over Boston University, 34-7, for its 19th straight, while unbeaten but once tied (by Colorado) Oklahoma, ranked No. 4, was upending Iowa State, 41-0, in a Big Seven Conference game...