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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John C. Crockett, 88, trumpet-voiced reading clerk of the U.S. Senate for 40 years (until he retired in 1947); in Washington, D.C. Onetime Iowa farm boy and stock-company actor, big, rawboned "Uncle John" was said to be able to read faster than any man in decades of Senate history. Knowing when to skip or when to pause during controversial parts of a bill so that a Senator could break in, Crockett could riffle through bills at the rate of 60 pages in 20 minutes (his record: 300 bills in less than two hours). To keep his voice...
Author Bissell, 38, helps run his father's clothing factory in Dubuque, Iowa these days, but once he did an outdoor man's work: he was a river pilot. He wrote a novel about it two years ago (A Stretch on the River-TIME, July 24, 1950), and the river descriptions and river lingo rang fair and true. He writes just as effectively in The Monongahela and even gives a fair amount of his secret away: "In order to have a river in your blood, unforgettably and forever . . . you have to work on her for wages...
...Iowa, 24 uncommitted delegates were elected...
Last week in Iowa City the university celebrated the 25th anniversary of its experiment in "cooperation without compromise." A mixed group of religious leaders came to praise the school's work. Among them: Davenport's Roman Catholic Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, Des Moines' Methodist Bishop Charles W. Brashares, Des Moines' Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer. They just missed a chance to watch a typical example of cooperation in action. Fortnight before, a young Southern Baptist minister, the Rev. Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed...
Since the Iowa Plan was founded, other state-supported universities have patterned their departments of religion after it. And in 25 years, the plan has made religion an integral part of S.U.I.'s college life. Says Director Lampe: "The basic idea . . . is this: religion, theoretically and practically, is inseparable from education; hence it should be taught, even in a tax-supported institution like the State University of Iowa, not indirectly or surreptitiously, but unapologetically, comprehensively and in line with the best educational practice...