Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November 1949, William Porter, former newspaper reporter and successful fiction writer on leave from his post as assistant professor of journalism at State University of Iowa, came to TIME'S personnel department in New York and asked for a job. Any kind of job would do, he said, even that of office boy. All Porter wanted was a chance to watch the operation of a newsmagazine in order to round out his own journalistic experience...
...with Washington bureaucracy after eight months, and pining for a more patriotic part, Nixon joined the Navy, asked for sea duty, and was promptly assigned to Ottumwa, Iowa. There he learned nothing about the sea but a good deal about the Midwest. Eventually Nixon wound up as an operations officer with SCAT (South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command), which had the difficult and dangerous task of hauling cargo to the combat zones. He spent 15 months in the South Pacific, once, on Bougainville, was under bombardment for 28 out of 30 nights. Says he: "I got used...
Worst-hit areas to date: Texas (2,279 cases, numbers already dropping), Ohio and Iowa (numbers leveling off), Nebraska (numbers still rising). Notably free from severe epidemics: New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts...
Mitchell is a Roman Catholic, which is almost a requirement for the job of Democratic national chairman. He was born 49 years ago in Rock Valley, Iowa, son of a well-to-do banker ("We had ponies," recalls Mitchell) who lost his money, became a dairy farmer with young Steve's help. By janitoring and chauffeuring, young Mitchell worked his way through Creighton University prep school at Omaha. Later, he worked in the credit and sales promotion departments of General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Washington, studied law at Georgetown University at night. In 1932, he moved to Chicago...
...While Australia's crack Breast-Stroker John Davies clipped the Olympic record in the 200-meter event, the University of Iowa's Bowen Stassforth bobbed in a close second to pick up another five points...