Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing Doing. On the sixth day of Omar Bradley's testimony, Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper broke in to make a proposal. Why not skip the three Joint Chiefs, who were next in line to be heard, and move on to Dean Acheson? In doing so, Hickenlooper conceded that "the Joint Chiefs will probably be in general agreement" with Bradley and George Marshall, thus conceding that the Republicans had just about abandoned their hope that the hearings would find the Joint Chiefs siding with MacArthur against the President. Democratic Chairman Richard Russell put it up to the committee...
...CAREER: Iowa-born, 1904; West Point, class of 1928; served with the prewar 18th Pursuit Group in Hawaii in 1937 and as an instructor at the Air Corps Technical School; commanded a bomb group in the South Pacific in World War II, later became a staff officer in the Pentagon; after the war, became commander of the Yukon sector, Alaskan Air Command, was back on staff duty with the Atomic Energy Commission when he was sent off to Japan and the prospect of another star...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
...Little Foxes) to write a book (There I Stood With My Piccolo) and to turn out some serious music. He has three symphonies ("strictly orthodox") to his credit, one subtitled "An Old-Fashioned Piece for People Who Like Melody." Says he: "I guess I'm still an Iowa boy because I don't feel I've got a symphony unless there's melody. Indeed, now I usually ask myself 'Is it commercial...
...highest in history; farm land jumped 14% between March 1950 and March 1951. "The upward pressure on farm land prices," continued the bureau, "has naturally been strongest in those areas where prospects of higher farm income in 1951 and later appear to be the most promising." In corn-rich Iowa last week, farm land was selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real-estate prices as much as 20%. With the U.S. demanding all-out farm production for defense, and with high prices guaranteed by federal support...